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The experiment was conducted in 2019\u20132020 at the Second Company of Shihezi University Teaching Experimental Farm in Xinjiang, China, with six fertilization treatments (0, 120, 240, 360, 480 kg\/hm pure N), sampled at five key fertility stages of cotton (squaring stage, full budding stage, flowering, boll stage, and boll opening stage), and the obtained data were used in two modeling approaches (eigenbands and spectral indices) to establish a cotton nitrogen estimation model and estimate the cotton leaf N content. The results showed that the nonlinear model using SVR was validated with an R2 of 0.71 and an RMSE of 3.91. The linear models of MLR and PLS were developed for the feature bands screened by SPA and RF, respectively, and the best modeling result was achieved by SPA-PLS with a validated R2 of 0.722 and an RMSE of 3.83. The existing spectral indices were optimized by screening the central wavelength and the simple linear regression model was constructed. The inversion effect of the SVR model with the characteristic spectral modeling was better than the index results. However, compared with the direct use of the characteristic wavelengths and the SVR way of modeling, the accuracy of leaf N content estimation by the model built by optimizing the spectral indices was reduced but the stability was greatly improved, and it can be used as a hyperspectral model for leaf N content at full fertility. The hyperspectral estimation of leaf N content in cotton can be used as a hyperspectral estimation method for the whole fertility period.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14205201","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,18]],"date-time":"2022-10-18T00:31:01Z","timestamp":1666053061000},"page":"5201","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Optimization and Validation of Hyperspectral Estimation Capability of Cotton Leaf Nitrogen Based on SPA and RF"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Xiangyu","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Xinjiang Production and Construction Group Oasis Eco-Agriculture Key Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Lv","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xinjiang Production and Construction Group Oasis Eco-Agriculture Key Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China"}]},{"given":"Lulu","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xinjiang Production and Construction Group Oasis Eco-Agriculture Key Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China"}]},{"given":"Aiqun","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Agricultural Technology Extension Station, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Fourth Division, Kokodara 835213, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xinjiang Production and Construction Group Oasis Eco-Agriculture Key Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2318-8865","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ze","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Xinjiang Production and Construction Group Oasis Eco-Agriculture Key Laboratory, College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"111758","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2020.111758","article-title":"Crop nitrogen monitoring, Recent progress and principal developments in the context of imaging spectroscopy missions","volume":"242","author":"Berger","year":"2020","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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