The precision of spatial prediction for four kinds of soil nutrient(organic matter,available N,available P and available K) from 6 051 samples,which belonged to three main subclasses of paddy soil in Shaoyang County of Hunan Province were studied by using inverse distance weight(IDW),local polynomial interpolation(LPI) and Kriging interpolation(Kriging).The results showed that using LPI to study the precision of spatial prediction of organic matter in submergenic paddy soil and available P in gleyed paddy soil had relatively greater eff...