iSDAsoil: soil total Carbon for Africa predicted at 30 m resolution at 0-20 and 20-50 cm depths

iSDAsoil dataset soil total carbon in permilles (g/kg) log-transformed predicted at 30 m resolution for 0–20 and 20–50 cm depth intervals. Data has been projected in WGS84 coordinate system and compiled as COG. Predictions have been generated using multi-scale Ensemble Machine Learning with 250 m (MODIS, PROBA-V, climatic variables and similar) and 30 m (DTM derivatives, Landsat, Sentinel-2 and similar) resolution covariates. For model training we use a pan-African compilations of soil samples and profiles (iSDA points, AfSPDB, and other national and regional soil datasets). Cite as:

Hengl, T., Miller, M.A.E., Križan, J. et al. African soil properties and nutrients mapped at 30 m spatial resolution using two-scale ensemble machine learning. Sci Rep 11, 6130 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y

To open the maps in QGIS and/or directly compute with them, please use the Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF version.

Layer description:

• sol_log.c_tot_mehlich3_m_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil total Carbon mean value,
• sol_log.c_tot_mehlich3_md_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil total Carbon model (prediction) errors,

Model errors were derived using bootstrapping: md is derived as standard deviation of individual learners from 5-fold cross-validation (using spatial blocking). The model 5-fold cross-validation (mlr::makeStackedLearner) for this variable indicates:

Variable: log.c_tot 
R-square: 0.794 
Fitted values sd: 0.571 
RMSE: 0.291 

Random forest model:
Call:
stats::lm(formula = f, data = d)

Residuals:
     Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
-2.70312 -0.16714 -0.00549  0.15691  3.01116 

Coefficients:
               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)    0.025841   0.032713   0.790 0.429570    
regr.ranger    0.902240   0.008462 106.619  < 2e-16 ***
regr.xgboost   0.066535   0.008145   8.169 3.18e-16 ***
regr.cubist    0.145730   0.006927  21.039  < 2e-16 ***
regr.nnet     -0.048957   0.013466  -3.636 0.000278 ***
regr.cvglmnet -0.075212   0.005556 -13.537  < 2e-16 ***
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Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 0.291 on 50140 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.7938,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.7938 
F-statistic: 3.861e+04 on 5 and 50140 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

To back-transform values (y) to g/kg use the following formula:

g/kg = expm1( y / 10 )

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