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.
A huge thanks to all our community members that attended the first two working group meetings this week. It was great to see lots of enthusiasm for soil spectroscopy.
If you are a user of the {clhs} package in #rstats, make sure you upgrade to the latest version:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/clhs/index.html
(extremely niche tweet, I know)
Just a reminder that we have this great webinar coming up on Wednesday.
We're delighted to announce a second webinar featuring @rlleonardo presenting "Getting accurate predictions from large and diverse spectral libraries" on May 5th
For more information & registration link, please visit: https://soilspectroscopy.org/soilspec4gg-webinar-series-ii-5-may-2021/
Super low-cost reflectometer by @our_sci predicting carbon in sub-Saharan Africa soils.
https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/saj2.20263#.YIq7HHC7GQ0.twitter
