02162naa a2200217 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400410006010000230010124500720012426000090019652015310020565000280173665000140176465300310177870000170180970000200182670000270184670000210187377300500189420812002021-11-10       2017    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 ahttps://doi.org/10.1071/SR160602DOI1 aPINHEIRO, H. S. K.  aTree-based techniques to predict soil units.h[electronic resource]  c2017  aQuantitative soil-landscape models offer a method for conducting soil surveys that use statistical tools to predict natural patterns in the occurrence of particular map units across a landscape. The aim of the present study was to predict soil units in a watershed with wide variation in landscape conditions. The approach relied on a modelling of soil-forming factors in order to understand the variability of the landscape components in the region. Models were generated for landscape attributes related to pedogenesis, specifically elevation, slope, curvature, compound topographic index, Euclidean distance from stream networks, landforms map, clay minerals index, iron oxide index and normalised difference vegetation index, along with an existing geology map. The soil classification was adapted from the World Reference Base System for Soil Resources, and the predominant soil taxonomic orders observed were Ferrasols, Acrisols, Gleysols, Cambisols, Fluvisols and Regosols. The algorithms used to predict the soil units were based on decision tree (DT) and random forest (RF) methods. The criteria used to evaluate the models' performance were statistical indices, coherence between predicted units and the legacy map, as well as accuracy checks based on control samples. The best performing model was found to be the RF algorithm, with resulting statistical indices considered excellent (overall = 0.966, kappa = 0.962). The accuracy of the map as determined by control points was 67.89%, with a kappa value of 61.39%.  aClassificação do Solo  aPedologia  aMapeamento digital do solo1 aOWENS, P. R.1 aANJOS, L. H. C.1 aCARVALHO JUNIOR, W. de1 aCHAGAS, C. da S.  tSoil Researchgv. 55, n. 8, p. 788-798, 2017.