Application of Hyperspectral Technology Combined with Genetic Algorithm to Optimize Convolution Long- and Short-Memory Hybrid Neural Network Model in Soil Moisture and Organic Matter

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The presentation of the paper is too poor. It is hard to understand and too many errors appear in the manuscript. I recommend author pay more attention to revising and improving the paper. 

The Abstract needs to rewrite. The method proposed by the author is not reported clearly and is hard to understand. 

 For the Introduction section, other detection methods based on spectrometers were not analyzed in detail. 

Page 1:

Line 12. 800 hyperspectral data?

Line 13. The full name of CNN should be given.

Line 18. training network At the initial stage.

Line 22. organic matter and water At the same time.

Line 23. The full name of SVR.

Line 26. high spectrometer?

Line 36. By the end of 2020, at least 83 million people will remain hungry. Now it is 2022 already.

Page 2:

Line 1. There should be a space between "challenges" and "[4, 5]". Other similar errors appear in Lines 7, 10, and 18, etc.

Line 5. Including 13 elements ...   It is not a complete sentence.

Line 16. The first letter of a sentence should be capitalized. Similar errors appear in Lines 23 and 31.

Line 16. How to understand "soil organic matter mainly come from soil organic matter"?

Lines 28 to 31. Repeat sentences.

Line 41. by soil moisture loss involves The scope is wider and ...

Page 3:

Line 14. Few researchers use"remote sensing hyperspectral spectrometer".

Line 18. Pretreatment? Maybe "preprocessing" is correct.

Line 20. water At the same time...

Line 23. for soil organic matter and water., ...

Line 38. matter[32]. or ...

 

There are too many errors in the manuscript. I did not list all of them.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

As you know, there is a decrease in soil fertility all over the world, so any way to assess their quality is very important. In this regard, indirect methods of identifying the current state of soils that are proposed in the article are very important. The article is of great importance for predicting the development of soils and soil cover. This is especially true in arid areas, where the risks of crop loss are very high. The article is written in good language, understandable to specialists from different fields of science, from different countries. The latter is very important, since the work can be in demand not only in China, but also on other continents. The tables are informative and understandable. The drawings are made in standard algorithms, so they are also understandable and well interpreted in the text. In general, the work makes a good impression, especially the large volume of collected soil samples makes it possible not to doubt the correctly formulated conclusions. There are small remarks that are given at the end. I wish you success in your future work, writing new, interesting articles.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

I really appreciated your article regarding the methodological proposal, I found your language friendly even for a non-expert, but I ask you for a further little effort, you should try to harmonize the part relating to the methodology because I have the feeling that the different methodological paragraphs are not closely related to each other. Furthermore, I would suggest that you broaden the conclusions a little bit, maybe link them better to your goals and also insert a part of discussion. From a formal point of view, I suggest a general re-reading because there are some typos and you will find some more specific suggestions below.

·       review the spaces, before the “[“ often the space is missing

·       sometimes the closing parenthesis is missing

·       review the periods (.), sometimes they are missing at the end of the sentences and other times they are together with the comma

·       Please pay attention to uppercase and lowercase letters because often there is a lowercase after the point or there is a capital letter and the first period is missing (for examples Page 2, line 3: “soil” goes uppercase or Page 4, line 28: “the” goes capitalized… The)

·       Please define the acronyms the first time they are used

·       Page 2, line 34: human survival is repeated 2 times in the same sentence, the second time you can use “it”

·       Paragraph 1.4: can be deleted, while saving the text

·       Page 3, line 33: I think the point (.) goes to the name of the authors M Chen and M Zhang ... also applies to the others later

·       Page 3, line 38: or I think it's a typo

·       Figure 1 can be moved higher in the text

·       Page 5: I did not understand this sentence “Remove the plant tissue, gravel and other impurities in the sample, grindand6 screen after air drying, so that the particle size of the soil is less than0.25mm;” perhaps is a typo

·       Page 5, line 17: you mentioned Table I, but where is table I?

·       Page 5, line 28: Find synonyms to avoid repetitions of the light spot of the light source…

·       Page 6, formula 1: explain what the elements present in the formula are ... also for the others they must explain the formulas better

·       Page 8, line 26: you mentioned a formula, but I think it is missing

·       Figure 4 should be commented on better

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper has an obvious improvement. 

Some minor issues:

1. The figures on the paper are too burry.

2. Page 12. Line 20 Th?

3. Page 16 Line 10. w   ere?