
Updates from the Open Soil Spectral Library
Dear Community, The core team at Soil Spectroscopy for the Global Good initiative has been quietly working away and we’re pleased to share some updates.




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An Open Soil Spectroscopy library based on the Open Source Software
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Accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in soil spectroscopy by facilitating and supporting a collaborative network of researchers.
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Connect international teams and experts in the fields of soil spectroscopy, remote sensing of soils and data science.
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Dear Community, The core team at Soil Spectroscopy for the Global Good initiative has been quietly working away and we’re pleased to share some updates.

After launching two community competitions on predictive soil spectroscopy on Kaggle, we are now pleased to announce the winners based on the results of the

Call all data scientists. We are hosting two Kaggle community competitions using the Open Soil Spectral Library. Please enter and spread the word. 1) Can
AN OPEN SOIL
SPECTROSCOPY LIBRARY
Making soil data available across borders

Today's data-driven agriculture demands access to high-resolution spatial and temporal soil data streams. Soil spectroscopy can help fill this data gap. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy is becoming an indispensable tool in soil science; however, several technical challenges still limit its broader application outside of research projects.
SoilSpec4GG is a USDA-funded Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools Coordinated Innovation Network. This project will bring together soil scientists, spectroscopists, informaticians, data scientists and software engineers to overcome some of the current bottlenecks preventing wider and more efficient use of soil spectroscopy. A series of working groups will be formed to address topics including calibration transfer, model choice, outreach & demonstration, and use of spectroscopy to inform global carbon cycle modeling.
MAJOR PROJECT OUTPUTS
ACCESS WEB-SERVICES USING API
Data and software / computing will be served through robust and easy to use web-services and API. Users can upload their soil spectroscopy readings and obtain calibrations in near-to-real time.
DOCUMENTATION, TUTORIALS
All software and data will be accompanied with extensive documentation. Demonstration, outreach and educational activities will promote the use of the OSSL and data-driven science.
@zecojls & @sandersoil are looking for a young talented pedometrician (data-driven soil scientist) to join our team -- https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4305761707/
Combining digital microscopy with VNIR spectroscopy to estimate aggregation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706125003635
Soil Organic Carbon Prediction Using an Efficient Channel Attention‐Enhanced CNN‐LSTM Model With LUCAS Spectral Library
https://bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ejss.70202
MIR spectroscopy was used as a diagnostic tool to better understand what each Pyrogenic Carbon method was actually isolating.
Interested in fire-derived carbon in soils? Interested in how to quantify this pyrogenic carbon? Read on...
https://t.co/96rV0zktPw
Nice paper by a great team working across multiple soil spectral libraries to produce quality predictions from field measurements - good harmonization & standardization methods are the key
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375525005842