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This study examined the capability of machine learning (ML) models in estimating soil texture fractions using different combinations of remotely sensed data from Sentinel-1 (S1), Sentinel-2 (S2), and terrain-derived covariates (TDC) across two contrasting agroecological regions in Southwest Germany, Kraichgau and the Swabian Alb. Importantly, we tested the predictive power of three different ML models: the random forest (RF), the support vector machine (SVM), and extreme gradient boosting (XGB) coupled with the remote sensing data covariates. As expected, ML model performance was not consistent regarding the input covariates, soil texture fractions, and study regions. For example, in the Swabian Alb, the SVM model performed the best for the sand content with S2 + TDC (RMSE = 3.63%, R2 = 0.42), and XGB best predicted the clay content with S1 + S2 + TDC (RMSE = 6.84%, R2 = 0.64). In Kraichgau, the best models for sand (RMSE = 7.54%, R2 = 0.79) and clay contents (RMSE = 6.14%, R2 = 0.48) were obtained using XGB and SVM, respectively. Moreover, the results indicated that TDC were critical in estimating soil texture fractions, especially in Kraichgau, which indicated that topography plays an important role in defining the spatial distribution of soil properties. In contrast, the contribution of remote sensing data better predicted the silt and clay content in the Swabian Alb. The transferability of a region-specific model to the other region was low as indicated by poor predictive performance. The resulting soil-texture-fraction maps could be a significant source of information for efficient land resource management and environmental monitoring. Nonetheless, further research to evaluate the added value of the Sentinel imagery and to better analyze the spatial transferability of machine learning models is highly recommended.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14235909","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,22]],"date-time":"2022-11-22T08:29:58Z","timestamp":1669105798000},"page":"5909","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Digital Soil Texture Mapping and Spatial Transferability of Machine Learning Models Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Terrain-Derived Covariates"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9344-1945","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Reza","family":"Mirzaeitalarposhti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Fertilization and Soil Matter Dynamics (340i), Institute of Crop Science, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany"}]},{"given":"Hossein","family":"Shafizadeh-Moghadam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Water Engineering and Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran P.O. 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