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There would be valuable benefits from applying these techniques to the Arctic areas, where ground local studies are typically difficult to perform due to hardly accessible roads and lands. At the same time, however, the application of remote-sensing methods comes with its own set of challenges when it comes to the peculiar features of the Arctic: short growing periods, winter storms, wind, and frequent cloud and snow cover. In this study we perform a comparative analysis of three commonly used classification algorithms: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), in combination with ground truth samples from regions all over Iceland, provided by Iceland\u2019s Soil Conservation Service department. The process can be automated to predict soil erosion risk for larger, less accessible areas from Sentinel-2 images. 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