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The Kriging method, one of the most frequently adopted estimation approaches for soil depth, has room for accuracy improvements. An appropriate soil depth estimation method is proposed, in which soil depth is estimated using Bayesian Maximum Entropy method (BME) considering space distribution of measured soil depth and impact of physiographic factors. BME divides analysis data into groups of deterministic and probabilistic data. The deterministic part are soil depth measurements in a given area and the probabilistic part contains soil depth estimated by a machine learning-based soil depth estimation model based on physiographic factors including slope, aspect, profile curvature, plan curvature, and topographic wetness index. Accuracy of estimates calculated by soil depth grading, very shallow (&lt;20 cm), shallow (20\u201350 cm), deep (50\u201390 cm), and very deep (&gt;90 cm), suggests that BME is superior to the Kriging method with estimation accuracy up to 82.94%. The soil depth distribution map of Hsinchu, Taiwan made by BME with a soil depth error of \u00b15.62 cm provides a promising outcome which is useful in future applications, especially for locations without soil depth data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e21010069","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,16]],"date-time":"2019-01-16T03:09:13Z","timestamp":1547608153000},"page":"69","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Estimation of Soil Depth Using Bayesian Maximum Entropy Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5274-291X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kuo-Wei","family":"Liao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Jia-Jun","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Jen-Chen","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Chien Lin","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hetengtech Company Limited, New Taipei City 24250, Taiwan"}]},{"given":"Shao-Hua","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1763","DOI":"10.2136\/sssaj1989.03615995005300060026x","article-title":"Soil, landscape, and erosion relationships in northwest Illinois watershed","volume":"53","author":"Krezoner","year":"1989","journal-title":"Soil Sci. 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