WHY SOILSPEC4GG?
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.
Evaluation of different calibration transfer methods - spectral space transfer more accurate and efficient than other methods.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/BTBCNYVER3RB7UJ2MYHG?target=10.1002/saj2.20225
Click bait title for spectroscopy nerds, but we clicked on it.
#PLOSONE: How similar is “similar,” or what is the best measure of soil spectral and physiochemical similarity https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247028
Interesting work -- Using autoencoders to compress soil VNIR–SWIR spectra for more robust prediction of soil properties
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706121000410
Terroir from VNIR spectroscopy
Mapping and describing natural terroir units in Denmark https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706121000884
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