The impact of rainfall magnitude on the performance of digital soil mapping over low-relief areas using a land surface dynamic feedback method |
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| Institution: | 1. CSIRO, Adelaide, South Australia 5064, Australia;2. CSIRO, Brisbane, Queensland 4068, Australia;3. Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Government of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;4. CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia;1. Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China;2. School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China;3. State Key Lab of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;4. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, 1 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China;5. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA;6. Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;1. Soil Science Lab, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada;2. Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, 75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada;3. British Columbia Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resources Operations, Forest Sciences Section, Vernon, BC V1B 2C7, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Previous studies have demonstrated that the pattern of land surface dynamic feedbacks (LSDF) based on remote sensing images after a rainfall event can be used to derive environmental covariates to assist in predicting soil texture variation over low-relief areas. However, the impact of the rainfall magnitude on the performance of these covariates has not been thoroughly investigated. The objective of this study was to investigate this impact during ten observation periods following rainfall events of different magnitudes (0–40 mm). An individual predictive soil mapping method (iPSM) was used to predict soil texture over space based on the environmental covariates derived from land surface dynamic feedbacks. The prediction error showed strong negative correlation with rainfall magnitude (Pearson’s r between root-mean squared error of prediction and rainfall magnitude = −0.943 for percentage of sand and −0.883 for percentage of clay). When the rainfall reaches a certain magnitude, the prediction error becomes stable. The recommended rain magnitude (threshold) using LSDF method in this study area is larger than 20 mm for both sand and clay percentage. The predictive maps based on different observed periods with similar rainfall magnitudes show only slight differences. Rainfall magnitude can thus be said to have a significant impact on the prediction accuracy of soil texture mapping. Greater rainfall magnitude will improve the prediction accuracy when using the LSDF. And high wind speed, high evaporation and low relative humidity during the observed periods also improved the prediction accuracy, all by stimulating differential soil drying. |
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| Keywords: | Land surface dynamic feedbacks Individual predictive soil mapping Rainfall magnitude Soil texture |
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