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Main Authors: Kakhani, Nafiseh, Rangzan, Moien, Jamali, Ali, Attarchi, Sara, Alavipanah, Seyed Kazem, Mommert, Michael, Tziolas, Nikolaos, Scholten, Thomas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03586
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author Kakhani, Nafiseh
Rangzan, Moien
Jamali, Ali
Attarchi, Sara
Alavipanah, Seyed Kazem
Mommert, Michael
Tziolas, Nikolaos
Scholten, Thomas
author_facet Kakhani, Nafiseh
Rangzan, Moien
Jamali, Ali
Attarchi, Sara
Alavipanah, Seyed Kazem
Mommert, Michael
Tziolas, Nikolaos
Scholten, Thomas
contents Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) constitutes a fundamental component of terrestrial ecosystem functionality, playing a pivotal role in nutrient cycling, hydrological balance, and erosion mitigation. Precise mapping of SOC distribution is imperative for the quantification of ecosystem services, notably carbon sequestration and soil fertility enhancement. Digital soil mapping (DSM) leverages statistical models and advanced technologies, including machine learning (ML), to accurately map soil properties, such as SOC, utilizing diverse data sources like satellite imagery, topography, remote sensing indices, and climate series. Within the domain of ML, self-supervised learning (SSL), which exploits unlabeled data, has gained prominence in recent years. This study introduces a novel approach that aims to learn the geographical link between multimodal features via self-supervised contrastive learning, employing pretrained Vision Transformers (ViT) for image inputs and Transformers for climate data, before fine-tuning the model with ground reference samples. The proposed approach has undergone rigorous testing on two distinct large-scale datasets, with results indicating its superiority over traditional supervised learning models, which depends solely on labeled data. Furthermore, through the utilization of various evaluation metrics (e.g., RMSE, MAE, CCC, etc.), the proposed model exhibits higher accuracy when compared to other conventional ML algorithms like random forest and gradient boosting. This model is a robust tool for predicting SOC and contributes to the advancement of DSM techniques, thereby facilitating land management and decision-making processes based on accurate information.
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spellingShingle SSL-SoilNet: A Hybrid Transformer-based Framework with Self-Supervised Learning for Large-scale Soil Organic Carbon Prediction
Kakhani, Nafiseh
Rangzan, Moien
Jamali, Ali
Attarchi, Sara
Alavipanah, Seyed Kazem
Mommert, Michael
Tziolas, Nikolaos
Scholten, Thomas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) constitutes a fundamental component of terrestrial ecosystem functionality, playing a pivotal role in nutrient cycling, hydrological balance, and erosion mitigation. Precise mapping of SOC distribution is imperative for the quantification of ecosystem services, notably carbon sequestration and soil fertility enhancement. Digital soil mapping (DSM) leverages statistical models and advanced technologies, including machine learning (ML), to accurately map soil properties, such as SOC, utilizing diverse data sources like satellite imagery, topography, remote sensing indices, and climate series. Within the domain of ML, self-supervised learning (SSL), which exploits unlabeled data, has gained prominence in recent years. This study introduces a novel approach that aims to learn the geographical link between multimodal features via self-supervised contrastive learning, employing pretrained Vision Transformers (ViT) for image inputs and Transformers for climate data, before fine-tuning the model with ground reference samples. The proposed approach has undergone rigorous testing on two distinct large-scale datasets, with results indicating its superiority over traditional supervised learning models, which depends solely on labeled data. Furthermore, through the utilization of various evaluation metrics (e.g., RMSE, MAE, CCC, etc.), the proposed model exhibits higher accuracy when compared to other conventional ML algorithms like random forest and gradient boosting. This model is a robust tool for predicting SOC and contributes to the advancement of DSM techniques, thereby facilitating land management and decision-making processes based on accurate information.
title SSL-SoilNet: A Hybrid Transformer-based Framework with Self-Supervised Learning for Large-scale Soil Organic Carbon Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03586