iSDAsoil: soil fine-earth bulk density for Africa predicted at 30 m resolution at 0-20 and 20-50 cm depths

iSDAsoil dataset soil fine-earth bulk density in 10×kg/m3 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, LandPKS, 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/s41…

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Layer description:

• sol_db_od_m_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil bulk density mean value,
• sol_db_od_md_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil bulk density 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: db_od 
R-square: 0.819 
Fitted values sd: 0.269 
RMSE: 0.126 

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

Residuals:
     Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
-1.06778 -0.06450  0.00215  0.06585  0.90016 

Coefficients:
              Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
(Intercept)   -0.05538    0.04860  -1.140  0.25451    
regr.ranger    0.86305    0.01577  54.733  < 2e-16 ***
regr.xgboost   0.15383    0.01651   9.315  < 2e-16 ***
regr.cubist    0.02039    0.01113   1.832  0.06695 .  
regr.nnet      0.03465    0.03710   0.934  0.35036    
regr.cvglmnet -0.03021    0.01032  -2.927  0.00343 ** 
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Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Residual standard error: 0.1263 on 13565 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared:  0.8194,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.8193 
F-statistic: 1.231e+04 on 5 and 13565 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16

To back-transform values (y) to kg/m-cubic use:

kg/m3 = y * 10

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iSDA is a social enterprise with the mission to improve smallholder farmer profitability across Africa. iSDA builds on the legacy of the African Soils information service (AfSIS) project. We are grateful for the outputs generated by all former AfSIS project partners: Columbia University, Rothamsted Research, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Quantitative Engineering Design (QED), ISRIC — World Soil Information, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ethiopia Soil Information Service (EthioSIS), Ghana Soil Information Service (GhaSIS), Nigeria Soil Information Service (NiSIS) and Tanzania Soil Information Service (TanSIS). More details on AfSIS partners and data contributors can be found at isda-africa.com