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The objectives of this study were to: (a) evaluate the addition of relief, and vegetation covariates derived from multispectral images with distinct spatial and spectral resolutions (Landsat 8 and RapidEye) and L-band radar (ALOS PALSAR) for the prediction of soil organic carbon stock (CS) and particle size fractions; and (b) evaluate the performance of four geostatistical methods to map these soil properties. Overall, the results show that, even under forest coverage, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and ALOS PALSAR backscattering coefficient improved the accuracy of CS and subsurface clay content predictions. The NDVI derived from RapidEye sensor improved the prediction of CS using isotopic cokriging, while the NDVI derived from Landsat 8 and backscattering coefficient were selected to predict clay content at the subsurface using regression kriging (RK). The relative improvement of applying cokriging and RK over ordinary kriging were lower than 10%, indicating that further analyses are necessary to connect soil proxies (vegetation and relief types) with soil attributes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9020124","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,3]],"date-time":"2017-02-03T10:32:20Z","timestamp":1486117940000},"page":"124","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Soil Carbon Stock and Particle Size Fractions in the Central Amazon Predicted from Remotely Sensed Relief, Multispectral and Radar Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Marcos","family":"Ceddia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Solos, Instituto de Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BR 465, km 7, Serop\u00e9dica 23890-000, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Andr\u00e9a","family":"Gomes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Solos, Instituto de Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BR 465, km 7, Serop\u00e9dica 23890-000, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Gustavo","family":"Vasques","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Embrapa Solos, Rua Jardim Bot\u00e2nico, 1024, Rio de Janeiro 22460-000, Brazil"}]},{"given":"\u00c9rika","family":"Pinheiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Solos, Instituto de Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, BR 465, km 7, Serop\u00e9dica 23890-000, Brazil"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,2,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Departamento Nacional de Produ\u00e7\u00e3o Mineral (1973\u20131987). 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