“…Various methods have been used to select wavelengths in soil spectroscopy to reduce the model's complexity by removing the source of noise, and irrelevant variables in the spectra, thus improving the robustness of a calibration model (Zou et al, 2010). These methods include the successive projection algorithm (SPA) (Araújo et al, 2001), discriminant function analysis (Elliott et al, 2007), wavelet transform (Viscarra Rossel & Lark, 2009), continuous wavelet transform (Wang et al, 2016), genetic algorithm (Vohland et al, 2011), uninformative variable elimination (UVE) (Vohland & Emmerling, 2011), competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (Vohland et al, 2014), parallel factor analysis (Reda et al, 2020), backward variable elimination, iterative predictor weighting (Reda et al, 2019), mutual information algorithm (Zhang et al, 2019), and other approaches (Li et al, 2022). Yang et al (2012) achieved similar prediction performance with PLSR models using only three or four wavelengths produced by UVE coupled with SPA, compared with those based on all 2100 wavelengths.…”