High resolution middle eastern soil attributes mapping via open data and cloud computing

• Published in: Geoderma Vol. 385; p. 114890
• Main Authors: Poppiel, Raúl Roberto, Demattê, José Alexandre Melo, Rosin, Nícolas Augusto, Campos, Lucas Rabelo, Tayebi, Mahboobeh, Bonfatti, Benito Roberto, Ayoubi, Shamsollah, Tajik, Samaneh, Afshar, Farideh Abbaszadeh, Jafari, Azam, Hamzehpour, Nikou, Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ruhollah, Ostovari, Yaser, Asgari, Najmeh, Naimi, Salman, Nabiollahi, Kamal, Fathizad, Hassan, Zeraatpisheh, Mojtaba, Javaheri, Fatemeh, Doustaky, Maryam, Naderi, Mehdi, Dehghani, Somayeh, Atash, Saeedeh, Farshadirad, Akram, Mirzaee, Salman, Shahriari, Ali, Ghorbani, Maryam, Rahmati, Mehdi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.03.2021
• Subjects: algorithms; atmospheric precipitation; calcium carbonate; data collection; environmental degradation; Google earth engine; Internet; Middle East; organic carbon; Pedometry; prediction; Random forest; Soil science; temperature; topsoil; Uncertainty; Middle East; Pedometry; Uncertainty; Soil science; Random forest; Google earth engine

[Display omitted] •We explored the power of cloud computing for digital soil mapping.•Multi-source environmental covariates had a highly explanatory power.•We achieved accurate topsoil clay, silt, sand, OC, pH and CaCO3 content maps.•Uncertainty maps suggest where additional fieldwork is necessary.•...