Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs12010085
Keywords
digital soil mapping; weighted model averaging; soil TN map; uncertainty analysis; land use types
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0201200]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019FZA6005]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M652099]
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Accurate estimates of the spatial distribution of total nitrogen (TN) in soil are fundamental for soil quality assessment, decision making in land management, and global nitrogen cycle modeling. In China, current maps are limited to individual regions or are of coarse resolution. In this study, we compiled a new 90-m resolution map of soil TN in China by the weighted summation of random forest and extreme gradient boosting. After harmonizing soil data from 4022 soil profiles into a fixed soil depth (0-20 cm) by equal area spline, 18 environmental covariates were employed to characterize the spatial pattern of soil TN in topsoil across China. The accuracy assessments from independent validation data showed that the weighted model averaging gave the best predictions with an acceptable R-2 (0.41). The prediction map showed that high-value areas of soil TN were mainly distributed in the eastern Tibetan Plateau, central Qilian Mountains and the north of the Greater Khingan Range. Climate factors had a considerable influence on the variation of the soil TN, and land-use types played a pivotal part in each climate zone. This high-resolution and high-quality soil TN data set in China can be very useful for future inventories of soil nitrogen, assessments of soil nutrient status, and management of arable land.
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