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In the paper, 264 soil samples were collected and analyzed in the range of 400 nm\u20132500 nm by the spectra vista corporation (SVC), and the spectral noise was smoothed by the Savitzky\u2013Golay filter. In order to enhance the spectral differences and curve shapes, mathematical transformations, such as the standard normal variate (SNV), first-order differential (FD), second-order differential (SD), multiple scattering correction (MSC), and continuum removal (CR), were performed on the data, and the correlation between spectral transformation and contents of REEs was analyzed. Moreover, three machine learning models\u2014partial least-squares (PLS), random forest (RF), back propagation neural network (BPNN)\u2014were used to predict the contents of REEs. Experimental results prove that REEs are combined with spectral active substances, such as organic compounds, clay minerals, and iron oxide, and it is possible to determine the contents of REEs using the reflection spectrum. The R2 between the predicted values and measured contents reached 0.986 by using BPNN after FD transformation. 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