Table 5 Performance of soil free iron content models based on spectrum transforms, variable selection, modeling methods *.

From: Estimation of soil free Iron content using spectral reflectance and machine learning algorithms

Spectrum transform,

variable selection, and

modeling method

Training

Testing

R2

RMSE

(g/kg)

RRMSE

(%)

R2

RMSE

(g/kg)

RRMSE

(%)

Original

0.725

6.145

27.9

0.567

7.578

34.7

FD

0.797

5.550

25.1

0.592

7.581

34.7

SNV

0.710

6.305

28.9

0.579

7.523

34.4

CR

0.793

5.371

24.4

0.644

7.14

32.7

Full

0.750

5.890

26.8

0.577

7.607

34.9

Correlated

0.698

6.379

29.0

0.517

8.015

36.6

PCA

0.821

5.260

23.9

0.692

6.744

30.9

PLS

0.640

7.089

31.8

0.588

7.261

33.6

SVM

0.701

6.427

30.4

0.603

7.414

33.9

RF

0.926

3.863

17.5

0.520

8.282

37.7

DNN

0.720

6.330

28.3

0.646

6.976

31.9

  1. * values in. this table were calculated from the data presented in Tables 2, 3 and 4.