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Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) afford new opportunities for rapid and low-cost SOM mapping at the field scale. However, the conversion from UAV measurements to SOM maps requires specific transfer models that still rely on local sampling. This study aimed to develop a method for predicting topsoil SOM at a high resolution on the field scale based on soil color information gained from low-altitude UAV imagery and machine learning. For this, we performed a UAV survey in cropland within the German loess belt. We used two fields, one for training and one for validation of the model, to test the model transferability. We analyzed 91 soil samples for SOM in the laboratory for the model calibration and 8 additional samples for external model validation. A random forest model (RF) showed good performance for the prediction of SOM based on UAV-derived color information with an RMSE of 0.13% and with an RPIQ of 2.42. 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