George E. B. auteur aut IRD Gomez Cécile auteur aut IRD Kumar D. N. auteur aut IRD Dharumarajan S. auteur aut IRD Lalitha M. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Hyperspectral imaging spectroscopy has facilitated the mapping of soil properties at large scales, but since the presence of photosynthetic or non-photosynthetic vegetation affects the reflectance spectra, soil properties mapping is limited to bare soil surfaces. This study analyzed the impact of bare soil pixel identification on clay content estimation using two methods (i) combination of two spectral indices, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for identifying photosynthetic vegetation and Cellulose Absorption Index for non-photosynthetic vegetation and (ii) spectral unmixing for estimating fractions of soil, photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation. The study used AVIRIS-NG image and laboratory measured clay content of 272 soil samples acquired over Karnataka, India. Bare soil pixels were identified using the two methods and performances of partial least squares regression (PLSR) models used to estimate the clay contents and the predicted clay content maps were analyzed and compared. PLSR model based on bare soil pixels identified by unmixing provided slightly better performances (R-val(2) of 0.61) than spectral indices (R-val(2) of 0.46), even though the percentage of study area mapped was reduced by half. This study highlighted that an improvement in prediction performance comes at the cost of reduction in spatial coverage in mapping of clay content. specialized AVIRIS-NG clay content bare soil selection spectral unmixing spectral indices INDE KARNATAKA 068 020 126 [Early access] [23 p.] 2022 1010-6049 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010085996 10.1080/10106049.2022.2102241 1010-6049 [F B010085996] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010085996 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2022-09/010085996.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2022-09-28 2025-02-24 fdi:010085996 fre