采用径向基函数神经网络模型与普通克里格法相结合的方法,预测川中丘陵区县域尺度土壤养分(有机质和全氮)的空间分布,并与普通克里格法和回归克里格法进行比较.结果表明:各方法对研究区土壤养分的预测结果相似.与多元回归模型相比,神经网络模型对验证样点土壤有机质和全氮的预测值与样点实测值的相关系数分别提高了12.3%和16.5%,表明神经网络模型能更准确地捕捉土壤养分与定量环境因子间的复杂关系.对469个验证样点预测结果的误差分析表明,神经网络模型与普通克里格法相结合的方法对土壤有机质和全氮预测结果的平均绝对误差、平均相对误差、均方根误差较普通克里格法分别降低了6.9%、7.4%、5.1%和4.9%、6.1%、4.6%,降低幅度达到极显著水平(P〈0.01);与回归克里格法相比则分别降低了2.4%、2.6%、1.8%和2.1%、2.8%、2.2%,降低幅度达显著水平(P〈0.05).
In this study,a radial basis function neural network model combined with ordinary kriging(RBFNN_OK) was adopted to predict the spatial distribution of soil nutrients(organic matter and total N) in a typical hilly region of Sichuan Basin,Southwest China,and the performance of this method was compared with that of ordinary kriging(OK) and regression kriging(RK).All the three methods produced the similar soil nutrient maps.However,as compared with those obtained by multiple linear regression model,the correlation coefficients between the measured values and the predicted values of soil organic matter and total N obtained by neural network model increased by 12.3% and 16.5%,respectively,suggesting that neural network model could more accurately capture the complicated relationships between soil nutrients and quantitative environmental factors.The error analyses of the prediction values of 469 validation points indicated that the mean absolute error(MAE),mean relative error(MRE),and root mean squared error(RMSE) of RBFNN_OK were 6.9%,7.4%,and 5.1%(for soil organic matter),and 4.9%,6.1%,and 4.6%(for soil total N) smaller than those of OK(P0.01),and 2.4%,2.6%,and 1.8%(for soil organic matter),and 2.1%,2.8%,and 2.2%(for soil total N) smaller than those of RK,respectively(P0.05).