Generating soil thickness maps by means of geomorphological-empirical approach and random forest algorithm in Wanzhou County, Three Gorges Reservoir

[Display omitted] •A state-of-the-art geomorphological model is customized to get distributed soil thickness map.•A hybrid version (GIST-RF) is developed combined with a random forest algorithm.•The two models are compared in a complex setting with very thick soils.•GIST-RF model showed promising re...

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