Accurate monitoring of soil organic carbon (SOC) is critical for sustainable management of soil for improving its quality, function, and carbon sequestration. As a nondestructive, efficient, and low-cost technique, mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy has shown a great potential in rapid estimation of SOC, despite limited studies of the global scale. The objective of this work was to use a globally distributed topsoil MIR spectral library with 33,039 samples to predict SOC using different modeling methods. Effects of nine fractional-order derivatives (FODs) on the predicted accuracy of SOC were eva...
