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We used hyperspectral remote sensing to model the SOC stock in the Sele River plain located in the Campania region in southern Italy. To this end, a soil spectral library (SSL) for the Campania region was combined with an aerial hyperspectral image acquired with the AVIRIS\u2013NG sensor mounted on a Twin Otter aircraft at an altitude of 1433 m. The products of this study were four raster layers with a high spatial resolution (1 m), representing the SOC stocks and three other related soil attributes: SOC content, clay content, and bulk density (BD). We found that the clay minerals\u2019 spectral absorption at 2200 nm has a significant impact on predicting the examined soil attributes. The predictions were performed by using AVIRIS\u2013NG sensor data over a selected plot and generating a quantitative map which was validated with in situ observations showing high accuracies in the ground-truth stage (OC stocks [RPIQ = 2.19, R2 = 0.72, RMSE = 0.07]; OC content [RPIQ = 2.27, R2 = 0.80, RMSE = 1.78]; clay content [RPIQ = 1.6 R2 = 0.89, RMSE = 25.42]; bulk density [RPIQ = 1.97, R2 = 0.84, RMSE = 0.08]). The results demonstrated the potential of combining SSLs with remote sensing data of high spectral\/spatial resolution to estimate soil attributes, including SOC stocks.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16050897","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,4]],"date-time":"2024-03-04T10:11:57Z","timestamp":1709547117000},"page":"897","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Mapping Soil Organic Carbon Stock Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: A Case Study in the Sele River Plain in Southern Italy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3770-7793","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicolas","family":"Francos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Remote Sensing Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 699780, Israel"},{"name":"Sydney Institute of Agriculture & School of Life & Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2015, Australia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9654-566X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paolo","family":"Nasta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7687-7632","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carolina","family":"Allocca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"given":"Benedetto","family":"Sica","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2231-8872","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Caterina","family":"Mazzitelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"given":"Ugo","family":"Lazzaro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0251-4668","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guido","family":"D\u2019Urso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5748-4224","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oscar Rosario","family":"Belfiore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4579-5682","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mariano","family":"Crimaldi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1757-7565","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabrizio","family":"Sarghini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6757-3530","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eyal","family":"Ben-Dor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Remote Sensing Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 699780, Israel"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7276-6994","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nunzio","family":"Romano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Edenhofer, O. 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