Research Article

Online Measurement of Soil Organic Carbon as Correlated with Wheat Normalised Difference Vegetation Index in a Vertisol Field

Table 4

Results of Kappa test comparing symmetric measures of maps of soil organic carbon (SOC) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI).

PairsSymmetric measuresκ
Asymp. Std. ErroraApprox. T b

Laboratory measured-laboratory vis-NIR predicted SOC (25 samples)0.004159.7220.473
Laboratory measured-online vis-NIR predicted SOC (25 samples)0.004118.3440.367
Laboratory measured SOC (92 samples)-NDVI0.00471.1430.203
Online vis-NIR predicted SOC (6486 points)-NDVI0.00477.3920.259

κ: Kappa.
a: not assuming the null hypothesis.
b: using the asymptotic standard error assuming the null hypothesis.