System Cognition and Analytic Technology of Cultivated Land Quality from a Data Perspective

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thank you very much for your constructive comments on this article. We have carefully read your suggestions and revised them one by one. In order to facilitate your review, we have given the reply and modification notes in red font after each modification opinion. In the word document, we modified it using the revision mode. The line numbers below are from the Word version we re-submitted. The main responses to your comments are as followers:

Point 1. “Figure 3. Technical System of Systematic Understanding and Analysis of Cultivated Land Quality”, this figure is missing, please add it.

Response 1:

Thank you for your question about the missing Figure 3. Our article originally had this figure, but it may have been lost during the format conversion. We have added it in line 322.

Point 2. All Figures and Tables were not found in the main text. Please add the Figures and

tables in the corresponding text where described them.

Response 2:

Thank you for your question about the quotation of figures and tables in the main text. It is our negligence not to quote the chart in the paper. We have quoted Figure 1 in line 149 to show the cognitive conceptual model of cultivated land quality. We have quoted Figure 2 in line 231 to show the cultivated land quality factors and their correlation. We quoted Figure 3 in line 332 to show the technical method of cultivated land quality analysis. We quoted Figure 4 in line 451 to show the cognitive framework of cultivated land quality in the black soil region. We quoted Table 1 in line 479 and line 501 to show the literature review of cultivated land quality function evaluation. We quoted Table 2 in line 509 to show the index system of cultivated land quality evaluation in the black soil region. We quoted Table 3 in line 524 to show the cognitive application scene of cultivated land quality in the black soil region.

Point 3. The doi for some references is missing, Please check and add doi in the referent

list.

Response 3:

Thank you for your question about the format of references. We have added doi for references1, 4, 5, 7, 10-16, 19-25, 28, 29. And we also checked and corrected other formatting problems of all references in this paper.

Thank you again for your reading and suggestions. All your suggestions are very important, and they make our paper more standard.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The methodology is not adequately described. If it is not a review paper, the Methodology of the work must stand as a separate section.

It is necessary to significantly modify the Conclusion, as well as take into account the suggestions written in the paper in the comments (8 in total).

It was a pleasure to read a paper on a current topic and learn something new.

Good luck!

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

Thank you very much for your constructive comments on this article. We have carefully read your suggestions and revised them one by one. In order to facilitate your review, we have given the reply and modification notes in red font after each modification opinion. In the word document, we modified it using the revision mode. The line numbers below are from the Word version we re-submitted. The main responses to your comments are as followers:

Point 1. Problems of citation of the references. Line 56, should this source be at the end of the sentence? If the ecological environment and endowment with natural resources is located in it? Line 63, does the sentence also quote source 6? Lines 89 to 92, can this claim be linked to the reference at the end of the paper?

Response 1:

Thank you for your questions about the citation of the references. We have carefully read your suggestions and made the following modifications.

First of all, as you said, it is the characteristic of cultivated land resources quality classification that emphasizing the features of cultivated land’s ecological environment and natural resource endowment. So it should be placed at the end of the sentence. We have put source 3 at the end of the sentence in line 57.

Secondly, the reference of the sentence ending in line 63 is not source 6. Because of our carelessness, we missed this reference source. Now we have added it, namely "Huffman E; Eilers R G; Padbury G; et al. Canadian agri-environmental indicators related to land quality: integrating census and biophysical data to estimate soil cover, Wind and soil salinity. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2000, 81 (2), 113-123, doi: 10.1016/S0167-8809 (00) 00185-7. "

Finally, the views in lines 89 to 92 are from the speech of Zhang Jiabao at the Xiangshan Scientific Conference on the Definition and Extension of Cultivated Land and its Investigation, Monitoring, and Evaluation in 2022, and there are no published articles to quote. So we have deleted this sentence.

Point 2. Where is the Figure 3?

Response 2:

Thank you for your question about the missing Figure 3. Our article originally had this figure, but it may have been lost during the format conversion. We have added it in line 322.

Point 3. Line 514, should it be 21 to 33 indicators?

Response 3:

Thank you for your question about the number of indicators. In the process of writing this paper, we did write the wrong number of indicators due to negligence. Finally, we determined 20 key indicators and 11 alternative indicators. We have changed it to 20 to 31 indicators in line 511.

Point 4. The conclusion is quite modest. It is necessary to significantly modify the fga, and based on the results of the research, highlight the applied nature of the work and the direction of future research. What did the authors actually conclude after the research?

Response 4:

Thank you for your question about the Conclusions. The description of the Conclusions is not specific. We have made the following considerations, which have been supplemented in the Conclusions.

The connotation of cultivated land quality is generalized, while the reduction of cultivated land quality in the black soil region of Northeast China is serious and needs to be analyzed urgently. To solve the problem, we examined the conceptual model of cultivated land system cognition from the perspective of data, By utilizing this framework, we investigated and developed the cultivated land quality evaluation system in the black soil region of northeast China. And this study demonstrates the framework's good adaptability, expansibility, and maneuverability. We also supplemented the future research focus, that is, to explore the practical cases of the application of this framework in the black soil region of Northeast China, so as to verify the application effect of the theory and method.

Point 5. References should be given in the appropriate format following the instructions for authors! For example. the year is in bold, the name of the journal is probably an abbreviated form, etc.

Response 5:

Thank you for your question about the format of references.. We have checked and corrected these problems by referring to the reference format provided by land Journal.

Thank you again for your reading and suggestions. All your suggestions are very important. They make our articles more rigorous and have important guiding significance for our future study work.

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