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BME prediction of continuous geographical properties using auxiliary variables
Authors:Yong Yang  ChuTian Zhang  Ruoxi Zhang
Institution:1.Department of Resource and Environmental Information, College of Resources and Environment,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan,China;2.Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtse River),Ministry of Agriculture,Wuhan,China;3.Department of Geography,San Diego State University,San Diego,USA
Abstract:Using auxiliary information to improve the prediction accuracy of soil properties in a physically meaningful and technically efficient manner has been widely recognized in pedometrics. In this paper, we explored a novel technique to effectively integrate sampling data and auxiliary environmental information, including continuous and categorical variables, within the framework of the Bayesian maximum entropy (BME) theory. Soil samples and observed auxiliary variables were combined to generate probability distributions of the predicted soil variable at unsampled points. These probability distributions served as soft data of the BME theory at the unsampled locations, and, together with the hard data (sample points) were used in spatial BME prediction. To gain practical insight, the proposed approach was implemented in a real-world case study involving a dataset of soil total nitrogen (TN) contents in the Shayang County of the Hubei Province (China). Five terrain indices, soil types, and soil texture were used as auxiliary variables to generate soft data. Spatial distribution of soil total nitrogen was predicted by BME, regression kriging (RK) with auxiliary variables, and ordinary kriging (OK). The results of the prediction techniques were compared in terms of the Pearson correlation coefficient (r), mean error (ME), and root mean squared error (RMSE). These results showed that the BME predictions were less biased and more accurate than those of the kriging techniques. In sum, the present work extended the BME approach to implement certain kinds of auxiliary information in a rigorous and efficient manner. Our findings showed that the BME prediction technique involving the transformation of variables into soft data can improve prediction accuracy considerably, compared to other techniques currently in use, like RK and OK.
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