TITLE:
Hyperspectral Analysis for a Robust Assessment of Soil Properties Using Adapted PLSR Method
AUTHORS:
Zouhaier Ben Rabah, Hedi Garbia, Emna Karray, Kais Tounsi, Abdelaziz Kallel, Basel Solaiman
KEYWORDS:
Spectroscopy, Hyperspectral Data, Soil Properties, Partial Least Squares Regression Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Remote Sensing,
Vol.8 No.4,
December
31,
2019
ABSTRACT: Near-InfraRed and Visible (Vis-NIR)
spectroscopy is a promising tool allowing to quantify soil properties. It shows
that information encoded in hyperspectral data can be useful after signal
processing and model calibration steps, in
order to estimate various soil properties throughout appropriate statistical
models. However, one of the problems encountered in the case of hyperspectral
data is related to information redundancy between different spectral bands.
This redundancy is at the origin of multi-collinearity in the explanatory
variables leading to unstable regression coefficients (and, difficult to
interpret). Moreover, in hyperspectral spectrum, the information concerning the
chemical specificity is spread over several wavelengths. Therefore, it is not
wise to remove this redundancy because this removal affects both relevant and
irrelevant hyperspectral information. In this study, the faced challenge is to
optimize the estimation of some soil properties by exploiting all the spectral
richness of the hyperspectral data by providing complementary rather than
redundant information. To this end, a new reliable approach based on
hyperspectral data analysis and partial least squares regression is proposed.