Dear authors,

You received two detailed reviews and a short comment for your manuscript in SOIL discussion. Both reviewers considered your manuscript as a valuable contribution to the discussion on new approaches for digital soil mapping (DSM).

Please submit a thoroughly revised version of your paper taken all comments fro the reviewers and the short comment into account, in particular providing justification for the chosen CNN (in comparison to other DSM approaches) and add more details in the Material and Method section to make your approach reproducible by other groups.

Please also consider to publish the developed code or a simplified guide as proposed by reviewer 1.

I am looking forward to your revised version of the manuscript.
Best regards,
Axel Don

Dear authors,
The revised version of your paper looks very nice and is almost ready to be published. Please check and correct some minor issues:
1.) Fig 5 and 6 and throughout the manuscript you used for TC the unit “g/100g-1”. This should either be “g/100g” or better “g 100g-1”.
2.) Fig 5: Change TOC to TC
3.) Page 7 l. 4: Please mention if there was any inorganic carbon in the samples or of TC equals TOC.
4.) Fig. 4 and page 13, l.11: Provide the unit with the RMSE, e.g. 100g-1,
5.) Tab. 3. Provide the units for RMSE and ME and the meaning of all four errors in the table heading. This helps the reader.
6.) Fig 2: You may change “Method” to “Analytical method” to make it more easy to understand.
I am looking forward to the revised final version of your paper.
Best regards,
Axel Don

The manuscript can now be accepted for publication, there are just a few minor corrections (see report) that you will need to consider before submitting your final ms. Thank you for choosing SOIL.

Kind regards,

K Van Oost