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Since 2006, the Spanish Polar Program has taken part in a large number of environmental studies involving the effects of climate change on biological life cycles, limnology, and microbiology. Soils from maritime Antarctica are generally weakly developed and have chemical, physical, and morphological characteristics that are strongly influenced by the parent material. However, biological activity during the short Antarctic summer promotes intense transference of nutrients and organic matter in areas occupied by different species of birds and marine mammals. Mapping and monitoring those areas that are highly occupied by various species could be very useful to create models prepared from satellite images of the edaphic properties. In this approach, deep learning and linear regression models of the soil properties and spectral indexes, which were considered as explicative variables, were used. We trained the models on soil properties closely related to biological activity such as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the iron fraction associated with the organic matter (Fe). We tested the best approach to model the spatial distribution of DOC, Fe, and pH by training the linear regression and deep learning models on Sentinel-2 and WorldView-2 images. The most robust models, the pH model built with the deep learning approach on Sentinel images (MAE of 0.51, RMSE of 0.70, and R2 with a residual of \u22120.49), the DOC model built with linear regression on Sentinel images (MAE of 189.39, RMSE of 342.23, and R2 with a residual of 0.0), and the organic Fe model built with deep learning (MAE of 116.20, RMSE of 209.93, and R2 of \u22120.05), were used to track possible areas with ornithogenic soils, as well as areas of Byers Peninsula that could be supporting the highest biological development.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16071192","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,28]],"date-time":"2024-03-28T12:09:40Z","timestamp":1711627780000},"page":"1192","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Mapping Dissolved Organic Carbon and Organic Iron by Comparing Deep Learning and Linear Regression Techniques Using Sentinel-2 and WorldView-2 Imagery (Byers Peninsula, Maritime Antarctica)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8267-0371","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Susana del Carmen","family":"Fern\u00e1ndez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geology and ICTEA (Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnolog\u00edas Aeroespaciales de Asturias), University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0323-6102","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rub\u00e9n","family":"Mu\u00f1iz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7551-2236","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juanjo","family":"Pe\u00f3n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mining Exploitation and Prospecting, University of Oviedo, 33600 Mieres, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0881-3634","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ricardo","family":"Rodr\u00edguez-Cielos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications (SSR), Polytechnic University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7161-3320","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jes\u00fas","family":"Ru\u00edz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0536-9934","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Javier F.","family":"Calleja","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics, University of Oviedo, 33003 Oviedo, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,3,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"191","DOI":"10.1017\/S0954102012000843","article-title":"Ecological relationships and stoichiometry within a Maritime Antarctic watershed","volume":"25","author":"Lezcano","year":"2013","journal-title":"Antarct. 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