SoilX: Calibration-Free Comprehensive Soil Sensing through Contrastive Cross-Component Learning

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Main Authors: Yang, Kang, Yang, Yuanlin, Chen, Yuning, Yang, Sikai, Zhang, Xinyu, Du, Wan
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author Yang, Kang
Yang, Yuanlin
Chen, Yuning
Yang, Sikai
Zhang, Xinyu
Du, Wan
author_facet Yang, Kang
Yang, Yuanlin
Chen, Yuning
Yang, Sikai
Zhang, Xinyu
Du, Wan
contents Precision agriculture demands continuous and accurate monitoring of soil moisture (M) and key macronutrients, including nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), to optimize yields and conserve resources. Wireless soil sensing has been explored to measure these four components; however, current solutions require recalibration (i.e., retraining the data processing model) to handle variations in soil texture, characterized by aluminosilicates (Al) and organic carbon (C), limiting their practicality. To address this, we introduce SoilX, a calibration-free soil sensing system that jointly measures six key components: {M, N, P, K, C, Al}. By explicitly modeling C and Al, SoilX eliminates texture- and carbon-dependent recalibration. SoilX incorporates Contrastive Cross-Component Learning (3CL), with two customized terms: the Orthogonality Regularizer and the Separation Loss, to effectively disentangle cross-component interference. Additionally, we design a novel tetrahedral antenna array with an antenna-switching mechanism, which can robustly measure soil dielectric permittivity independent of device placement. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SoilX reduces estimation errors by 23.8% to 31.5% over baselines and generalizes well to unseen fields.
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spellingShingle SoilX: Calibration-Free Comprehensive Soil Sensing through Contrastive Cross-Component Learning
Yang, Kang
Yang, Yuanlin
Chen, Yuning
Yang, Sikai
Zhang, Xinyu
Du, Wan
Machine Learning
Precision agriculture demands continuous and accurate monitoring of soil moisture (M) and key macronutrients, including nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K), to optimize yields and conserve resources. Wireless soil sensing has been explored to measure these four components; however, current solutions require recalibration (i.e., retraining the data processing model) to handle variations in soil texture, characterized by aluminosilicates (Al) and organic carbon (C), limiting their practicality. To address this, we introduce SoilX, a calibration-free soil sensing system that jointly measures six key components: {M, N, P, K, C, Al}. By explicitly modeling C and Al, SoilX eliminates texture- and carbon-dependent recalibration. SoilX incorporates Contrastive Cross-Component Learning (3CL), with two customized terms: the Orthogonality Regularizer and the Separation Loss, to effectively disentangle cross-component interference. Additionally, we design a novel tetrahedral antenna array with an antenna-switching mechanism, which can robustly measure soil dielectric permittivity independent of device placement. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SoilX reduces estimation errors by 23.8% to 31.5% over baselines and generalizes well to unseen fields.
title SoilX: Calibration-Free Comprehensive Soil Sensing through Contrastive Cross-Component Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05482