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Estimating soil total nitrogen in smallholder farm settings using remote sensing spectral indices and regression kriging

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2017.12.011
10.1016/j.catena.2017.12.011
 
Title Estimating soil total nitrogen in smallholder farm settings using remote sensing spectral indices and regression kriging
 
Creator Xu, Y
Smith, S E
Grunwald, S
Abd-Elrahman, A
Wani, S P
Nair, V D
 
Subject Digital Soil Mapping
GIS Techniques/Remote Sensing
Soil
Soil Science
 
Description Mapping soil nutrients can help smallholder farmers identify soil nutrient status and implement site-specific soil management schemes. In the past, Digital Soil Mapping has seldom been utilized to guide soil nutrient management in smallholder farm settings in South India. The objective of this research was to analyze the spatial resolution effects of different remote sensing images on soil total nitrogen (TN) prediction models in two smallholder villages, Kothapally and Masuti in South India. Regression kriging (RK) was used to characterize the spatial pattern of TN in the topsoil (0–15 cm) by incorporating spectral indices with different spatial resolutions. The results suggested that soil moisture, vegetation, and soil crusts can contribute to the conservation of soil TN in both study areas. Soil prediction models with different spatial resolutions showed a similar spatial pattern of soil TN. The results also demonstrated that the effect of very fine spatial remote sensing spectral data inputs does not always lead to an increase of soil prediction model performance. A RapidEye-based (5 m) soil TN prediction model had lower prediction accuracy than a Landsat 8-based (30 m) soil TN prediction model in Masuti. WorldView-2/GeoEye-1/Pleiades-1A-based (2 m) soil TN prediction models had the highest prediction accuracy in both study areas. The spectral indices based on new bands of WorldView-2 such as coastal, yellow, red edge, and new near infrared bands had relatively strong correlations with soil TN. The utilization of Very High Spatial resolution images such as WorldView-2 in Digital Soil Mapping could improve soil model performance and spatial characterization. Remote sensing-based soil prediction models have high potential to be widely applied in smallholder farm settings.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10600/1/Catena.pdf
Xu, Y and Smith, S E and Grunwald, S and Abd-Elrahman, A and Wani, S P and Nair, V D (2018) Estimating soil total nitrogen in smallholder farm settings using remote sensing spectral indices and regression kriging. Catena (TSI), 163. pp. 111-122. ISSN 03418162