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Visible, near infrared, and mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy, combined with the partial least squares regression (PLSR) method is considered to be an effective way of determining soil properties. In this study, we used 54 different spectral pretreatments to preprocess soil spectral data. These spectral pretreatments were composed of three denoising methods, six data transformations, and three dimensionality reduction methods. The three denoising methods included no denoising (ND), Savitzky\u2013Golay denoising (SGD), and wavelet packet denoising (WPD). The six data transformations included original spectral data, R; reciprocal, 1\/R; logarithmic, log(R); reciprocal logarithmic, log(1\/R); first derivative, R\u2019; and first derivative of reciprocal, (1\/R)\u2019. The three dimensionality reduction methods included no dimensionality reduction (NDR), sensitive waveband dimensionality reduction (SWDR), and principal component analysis (PCA) dimensionality reduction (PCADR). The processed spectra were then employed to construct PLSR models for predicting the SOM content. The main results were as follows\u2014(1) the wavelet packet denoising (WPD)-R\u2019 and WPD-(1\/R)\u2019 data showed stronger correlations with the SOM content. Furthermore, these methods could effectively limit the correlation between the adjacent bands and, thus, prevent \u201coverfitting\u201d. (2) Of the 54 pretreatments investigated, WPD-(1\/R)\u2019-PCADR yielded the model with the highest accuracy and stability. (3) For the same denoising method and spectral transformation data, the accuracy of the SOM content estimation model based on SWDR was higher than that of the model based on NDR. Furthermore, the accuracy in the case of PCADR was higher than that for SWDR. (4) Dimensionality reduction was effective in preventing data overfitting. (5) The quality of the spectral data could be improved and the accuracy of the SOM content estimation model could be enhanced effectively, by using some appropriate preprocessing methods (one combining WPD and PCADR in this study).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12071206","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,9]],"date-time":"2020-04-09T03:40:19Z","timestamp":1586403619000},"page":"1206","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":123,"title":["Hyperspectral Estimation of Soil Organic Matter Content using Different Spectral Preprocessing Techniques and PLSR Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Lanzhi","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9674-6020","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maofang","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Jingwen","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing of Guangdong Province, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China"}]},{"given":"Zhao-Liang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Pei","family":"Leng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"given":"Si-Bo","family":"Duan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1111","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apgeochem.2004.01.010","article-title":"Organic matter sources and transport in an agricultural dominated temperate watershed","volume":"19","author":"Munson","year":"2004","journal-title":"Appl. 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