Table 2 Model validation statistics using 30% validation set for soil organic carbon prediction using Nix extracted soil color and spectral data across four algorithms applied to soils from West Bengal, India.

From: Enhancing soil organic carbon estimation with generative AI and Nix color sensor

Model

R²

RMSE (%)

Bias (%)

RPIQ

Color Data

RF

0.71

0.93

0.10

1.16

GBR

0.64

1.04

0.15

1.04

XGBoost

0.66

1.01

0.13

1.08

ANN

0.60

1.10

0.26

0.98

Spectral Data

RF

0.61

1.09

0.07

1.00

GBR

0.64

1.05

0.10

1.04

XGBoost

0.54

1.18

0.13

0.92

ANN

0.68

0.98

0.12

1.10