نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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1 دانشجوی دکتری گروه مهندسی علوم خاک، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه لرستان، خرم آباد، ایران
2 استادیار گروه مهندسی علوم خاک، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه لرستان، خرم آباد، ایران
3 استادیار گروه مرتع و آبخیزداری، دانشکده کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه اردکان، اردکان، ایران
4 استاد گروه مهندسی علوم خاک، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه لرستان، خرم آباد، ایران
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نویسندگان [English]
Soil texture is one of the most important soil properties that govern soil physical, chemical and biological behaviors. In modeling soil textural fractions, different models are used. To combine the benefits from different models, one approach is combining their predictions. Since soil texture is a compositional data, when its fractions are estimated separately there is no guarantee that the estimates will sum to 100. Log-ratio transformations before modeling are ways to deal with the problem. Little is known about modeling transformed and untransformed (UT) soil texture data using a combination of different models. In the present study, 200 surface soil samples (0-30 cm) were collected from Kuhdasht region. Random forest (RF), k-nearest neighbors (kNN) and support vector machines (SVM) and their combination using Granger-Ramanathan (GR) method were used to model soil texture data. Additive log-ratio (alr), centroid log-ratio (clr) and isometric log-ratio (ilr) transformations were used to transform texture data. Environmental variables derived from Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 images and a digital elevation model (DEM) were used as input for all models. Results indicated that covariates derived from DEM were more important in modeling soil texture. All models improved the estimates of soil texture fractions when alr transformed data was compared to UT, clr, and ilr transformed data. The combined model (i.e. GR) did not show superiority over other models. Using GR model RMSE values for alr, clr, ilr transformed clay data and UT were 5.07%, 4.21%, 5.81%, and 6.09%, respectively. For silt RMSE values (in the same order as clay) were 7.11%, 5.15%, 9.04%, and 6.70%, and for sand were 9.20%, 7.67%, 11.69% and 8.74%, respectively. Generally, SVM using alr transformed data showed a slightly higher potential for modeling soil texture. Generally, results indicated that combining different machine learning algorithms did not necessarily improve the estimates. Therefore, it is possible to use a single appropriate model for modeling soil texture.
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