Organic carbon prediction in soil cores using VNIR and MIR techniques in an alpine landscape

Scientific Reports
Xiaolin JiaZhou Shi

Abstract

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), including visible and near-infrared (VNIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) radiation, is a rapid, accurate and cost-effective technique for estimating soil organic carbon (SOC). We examined 24 soil cores (0-100 cm) from the Sygera Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, considering field-moist intact VNIR, air-dried ground VNIR and air-dried ground MIR spectra at 5-cm intervals. Preprocessed spectra were used to predict the SOC in the soil cores using partial least squares regression (PLSR) and a support vector machine (SVM). The SVM models performed better with three predictors, with the ratio of performance to inter-quartile distance (RPIQ) and R 2 values typically exceeding 1.74 and 0.73, respectively. The SVM using the DRS technique indicated accurate predictive results of SOC in each core. The RPIQ values of the shrub meadow, forest and total dataset prediction using air-dried ground VNIR were 1.97, 2.68 and 1.99, respectively; the values using field-moist intact VNIR were 1.95, 2.07 and 1.76 and those using air-dried ground MIR were 1.78, 1.96 and 1.74, respectively. We conclude that the DRS technique is an efficient and rapid method for SOC prediction and has the potential for dynamic monit...Continue Reading

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