Please join us for our second soil spectroscopy webinar featuring Dr. Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez (Wednesday, May 5 2021, 9 am EDT). Dr. Ramirez-Lopez is head of the Data Science department at BUCHI Labortechnik AG in Switzerland. Over the past 14 years he has conducted research on infrared spectroscopy in Brazil, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. He is devoted to sharing his developments…

An applied online platform for soil properties estimation using spectroscopy has been developed by the Department of Soil Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The Applied Brazil Soil Spectral Library (BSSLap) aims to demonstrate in a simple and interactive way, some practical applications that can be explored when a soil spectral library is assembled. For this purpose, the BSSLap uses the 60,000 soil samples from…

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Please join us for our inaugural soil spectroscopy webinar featuring Dr. Alexandre Wadoux from the University of Sydney, Australia (Tuesday, April 27 2021, 7 pm EDT). Dr. Wadoux has made important contributions to nearly several aspects of pedometrics. In recognition of these early career contributions, Dr. Wadoux was just awarded the Margaret Oliver Award by the Pedometrics Commission of the…

Wanderson de Sousa Mendes, Tomislav Hengl, Jonathan Sanderman, Katherine Todd-Brown, Leandro Leal Parente, Asa Gholizadeh

Essentially, the soil spectroscopy (SoilSpec) refers to the detection and analysis of the interaction between soil constituents and light (e.g. electromagnetic radiation) mainly across the (i) visible (Vis, 350 – 780 nm), (ii) near-infrared (NIR, 780 – 2500 nm), and (iii) mid-infrared (MIR, 2500 – 25000 nm…

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We are pleased to inform you that the first meeting of SoilSpec4GG, a USDA-funded Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools Coordinated Innovation Network, is coming up in two weeks. This is an important stage as this project wants to be an asset to the soil spectroscopy community. Eventually, we will form a series of working groups to address topics including calibration transfer, model choice,…

I’m excited to announce that the US Department of Agriculture’s granting body, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), has selected our Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools Coordinated Innovation Network (FACT CIN) proposal “Soil Spectroscopy for the Global Good” for funding (award no. 2020-67021-32467). Many individuals contributed to the proposal development and provided greatly appreciated letters of support.

Soil spectroscopy is rapidly evolving…

The USDA NRCS National Soil Survey Center – Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory (NSSC-KSSL) has been quietly building one of the world’s largest libraries of mid infrared (MIR) spectra for soils. These diffuse reflectance spectral data complement the high quality traditional analytical data that the laboratory routinely produces for a number of physical, chemical and biological properties of soils. As of writing this post, there are over 75,000…