Research Article

Deep Learning Application for Predicting Soil Organic Matter Content by VIS-NIR Spectroscopy

Table 2

Prediction accuracy results of using different depths of DenseNet based on the full-spectrum data without the fractional-order derivative transformation.

ModelLearning rateTrainingValidation
R2RMSER2RMSERPD

DenseNet100.0010.832 ± 0.0125.334 ± 0.1770.806 ± 0.0076.519 ± 0.1282.345 ± 0.050
DenseNet100.00060.837 ± 0.0135.188 ± 0.2030.836 ± 0.0106.037 ± 0.1992.508 ± 0.085
DenseNet130.0010.878 ± 0.0104.376 ± 0.1640.833 ± 0.0056.117 ± 0.0952.462 ± 0.038
DenseNet130.00060.861 ± 0.0124.697 ± 0.1990.828 ± 0.0066.207 ± 0.1082.431 ± 0.044
DenseNet160.0010.856 ± 0.0124.782 ± 0.1970.827 ± 0.0086.172 ± 0.1352.461 ± 0.051
DenseNet160.00060.858 ± 0.0114.792 ± 0.1770.848 ± 0.0075.847 ± 0.1312.576 ± 0.058
DenseNet190.0010.870 ± 0.0104.515 ± 0.1790.853 ± 0.0075.722 ± 0.1242.639 ± 0.056
DenseNet190.00060.916 ± 0.0093.628 ± 0.1770.853 ± 0.0115.745 ± 0.2222.622 ± 0.099

Data are the mean ± standard deviation. R2 = coefficient of determination, RMSE = root mean square error, and RPD = the ratio of performance to deviation.