SoilGrids250m swMATH ID: 27798 Software Authors: Hengl, J. Mendes de Jesus, G. B. M. Heuvelink, M. Ruiperez Gonzalez, M. Kilibarda, A. Blagotic, W. Shangguan, M. N. Wright, X. Geng, B. Bauer-Marschallinger, M. A. Guevara, R. Vargas, R. A. MacMillan, N. H. Batjes, J. G.B. Leenaars, E. Ribeiro, I. Wheeler, S. Mantel, B. Kempen Description: SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning. This paper describes the technical development and accuracy assessment of the most recent and improved version of the SoilGrids system at 250m resolution (June 2016 update). SoilGrids provides global predictions for standard numeric soil properties (organic carbon, bulk density, Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), pH, soil texture fractions and coarse fragments) at seven standard depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100 and 200 cm), in addition to predictions of depth to bedrock and distribution of soil classes based on the World Reference Base (WRB) and USDA classification systems (ca. 280 raster layers in total). Predictions were based on ca. 150,000 soil profiles used for training and a stack of 158 remote sensing-based soil covariates (primarily derived from MODIS land products, SRTM DEM derivatives, climatic images and global landform and lithology maps), which were used to fit an ensemble of machine learning methods—random forest and gradient boosting and/or multinomial logistic regression—as implemented in the R packages ranger, xgboost, nnet and caret. The results of 10–fold cross-validation show that the ensemble models explain between 56 Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5313206/ Source Code: https://github.com/ISRICWorldSoil/SoilGrids250m Related Software: propagate; COSSAN; SAFE Toolbox; UQLab; gstat; mvtnorm; metRology; CRAN Task Views; shiny; DUE; UncertWeb; DAKOTA; R; spup; aplore3; AlphaGo; dfnWorks; LaGriT; PFLOTRAN; Scikit Cited in: 1 Publication all top 5 Cited by 7 Authors 1 Cawi, Eric 1 Hagberg, Aric 1 Hyman, Jeffrey D. 1 Osthus, Dave 1 Srinivasan, Gowri 1 Srinivasan, Shriram 1 Viswanathan, Hari S. Cited in 1 Serial 1 Computational Geosciences Cited in 5 Fields 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Computer science (68-XX) 1 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 1 Geophysics (86-XX) Citations by Year