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Systematic comparison of five machine-learning models in classification and interpolation of soil particle size fractions using different transformed data
Mo Zhang
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, State Key
Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of
Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of
Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, State Key
Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of
Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Ziwei Xu
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Short summary
We systematically compared 45 models for direct and indirect soil texture classification and soil particle size fraction interpolation based on 5 machine-learning models and 3 log-ratio transformation methods. Random forest showed powerful performance in both classification of imbalanced data and regression assessment. Extreme gradient boosting is more meaningful and computationally efficient when dealing with large data sets. The indirect classification and log-ratio methods are recommended.
We systematically compared 45 models for direct and indirect soil texture classification and...
