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Soil data recency: The foundation for harmonizing soil data across time.

Tegbaru B Gobezie¹, Stacey D Scott², Prasad Daggupati³

¹School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, N1G 2W1, Guelph, ON, Canada.

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Summary

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Harmonizing legacy soil data is crucial for sustainable management. This study developed a framework using machine learning to integrate soil data across time, showing terrain covariates are key predictors of data quality.

Keywords:

Age of soil data Digital soil mapping Remote sensing Sustianbility Time Harmonization

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Data Harmonization

Background:

Reliable soil information is essential for sustainable soil resource management.
Harmonizing soil data collected at different times (legacy data) is an underexplored challenge.
Integrating temporal dimensions into spatio-temporal soil studies is necessary.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a comprehensive framework for harmonizing soil data across different time periods.
To assess the integration of historical and recent soil data using soil data recency analysis.
To introduce and apply an 'age of data' attribute for temporal soil data harmonization.

Main Methods:

Applied three machine learning models: Decision Trees (DT), Random Forest (RF), and Gradient Boosting (GBM).
Utilized a dataset of 6339 sites and 28,149 depth-harmonized soil layers.
Introduced an 'age of data' attribute, calculating the time difference between survey years and the present.

Main Results:

Machine learning models demonstrated robust performance in predicting soil data recency.
Random Forest (RF) achieved the highest accuracy (R-squared: 0.99, RMSE: 1.41, Concordance: 0.97).
Terrain-derived environmental covariates were more influential than land use and land cover (LULC) change in predicting soil data recency.

Conclusions:

Terrain-derived covariates, particularly elevation factors, effectively explain the quality of older soil data.
The soil data recency concept enhances predictions of current soil attributes from historical data.
This approach can improve real-time estimates (e.g., carbon budgets) and is vital for global earth system models.