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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-35-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-35-2020
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06 Feb 2020
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Machine learning and soil sciences: a review aided by machine learning tools

José Padarian, Budiman Minasny, and Alex B. McBratney

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The application of machine learning (ML) has shown an accelerated adoption in soil sciences. It is a difficult task to manually review all papers on the application of ML. This paper aims to provide a review of the application of ML aided by topic modelling in order to find patterns in a large collection of publications. The objective is to gain insight into the applications and to discuss research gaps. We found 12 main topics and that ML methods usually perform better than traditional ones.