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Wadoux, A. 2021: “Estimating soil properties with spectral data”, https://doi.org/10.5446/52954
Ramirez-Lopez, L. 2021: “Getting accurate predictions from large and diverse spectral libraries”, https://doi.org/10.5446/52955
Sorenson, P. 2022: “Mapping Soil Organic Carbon In Soil Profiles using Imaging Spectroscopy”, https://doi.org/10.5446/57308
Safanelli, J.L. 2023: “The Open Soil Spectral Library”, https://doi.org/10.5446/63143
Safanelli, J.L. 2023: “Transferability of a large mid-infrared (MIR) soil spectral library”. SSSAJ Webinar Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm54F3CC40w
Soil Spectroscopy for Global Good team. Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL) manual. 2025. Available in: https://soilspectroscopy.github.io/ossl-manual/. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7599269.
Safanelli, J.L., Minarik, R., Hengl, T., Sanderman, J. 2023: “Predictive Soil Spectroscopy”. Available in: https://soilspectroscopy.github.io/soilspec-workshop/
Sanderman, J., Partida, C., Safanelli, J. L., Shepherd, K., Ge, Y., Mitu, S. M., & Ferguson, R. (2025). Application of a Handheld Near Infrared Spectrophotometer to Farm‐Scale Soil Carbon Monitoring. In European Journal of Soil Science (Vol. 76, Issue 1). Wiley. 10.1111/ejss.70053
Safanelli J.L., Hengl T., Parente L.L., Minarik R., Bloom D.E., Todd-Brown K., et al. Open soil spectral library (OSSL): Building reproducible soil calibration models through open development and community engagement. PLoS One. 2025;20: e0296545. 10.1371/journal.pone.0296545
Partida C., Safanelli J.L., Mitu S.M., Murad M.O.F., Ge Y., Ferguson R., et al. Building a near-infrared (NIR) soil spectral dataset and predictive machine learning models using a handheld NIR spectrophotometer. Data in Brief. 2025;58: 111229. 10.1016/j.dib.2024.111229
Mitu, S. M., Smith, C., Sanderman, J., Ferguson, R. R., Shepherd, K., & Ge, Y. (2024). Evaluating consistency across multiple NeoSpectra (compact Fourier transform near‐infrared) spectrometers for estimating common soil properties. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 88, 1324–1339. 10.1002/saj2.20678
Hong, Y., Sanderman, J., Hengl, T., Chen, S., Wang, N., Xue, J., Zhui, Z., Peng, J., Chen, Y., & Shi, Z. (2024). Potential of globally distributed topsoil mid-infrared spectral library for organic carbon estimation. Catena, 235, 107628. 10.1016/j.catena.2023.107628
Safanelli, J. L., Sanderman, J., Bloom, D., Todd-Brown, K., Parente, L. L., Hengl, T., and 48 others. (2023). An interlaboratory comparison of mid-infrared spectra acquisition: Instruments and procedures matter. Geoderma, 440, 116724. 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116724
Sanderman, J., Smith, C., Safanelli, J. L., Morgan, C. L., Ackerson, J., Looker, N., Mathers, C., Keating, R., & Kumar, A. A. (2023). Diffuse reflectance mid-infrared spectroscopy is viable without fine milling. Soil Security, 100104. 10.1016/j.soilsec.2023.100104
Sanderman, J., Gholizadeh, A., Pittaki‐Chrysodonta, Z., Huang, J., Safanelli, J. L., & Ferguson, R. (2023). Transferability of a large mid‐infrared soil spectral library between two FTIR spectrometers. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 87, 586-599. 10.1002/saj2.20513
Safanelli, J.L., Sanderman, J., Bloom, D.E., Todd-Brown, K.E., Parente, L.L., Hengl, T. (2023). Advances of the Soil Spectroscopy for Global Good (SS4GG) Initiative. AGU Fall Meeting. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1389273
Sanderman, J., Safanelli, J.L., Bloom, D.E., Parente, L.L., Hengl, T., Todd-Brown, K.E. (2023). Introducing the Open Soil Spectral Library. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/149052
Safanelli, J.L., Sanderman, J., Bloom, D.E., Todd-Brown, K.E., Parente, L.L., Hengl, T.. (2023). Interoperability of Shared Middle-Infrared Soil Spectral Libraries and Instruments. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/148974
Smith, C., Sanderman, J., Mitu, S.M., Ge, Y., Shepherd, K.D., Ferguson, R. (2023). Application of a Handheld Near Infrared Spectrophotometer to Farm-Scale Soil Monitoring. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/149852
Mitu, S.M., Ge, Y., Murad, M.O.F., Smith, C., Sanderman, J., Ferguson, R., Shepherd., K.D. (2023). Consistency Assessment of a Low-Cost, Fourier Transform Near-Infrared (FT-NIR) Spectrometer for Estimating Common Soil Properties. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/150689
Bloom D., Safanelli, J.L., Sanderman, J., Parente, L.L., Hengl, T., Todd-Brown, K.E. (2023). Haar Wavelet Transformations for Mir Soil Spectroscopy: Speed, Precision, Field-Wetness Signal-to-Noise Ratio, and Cross-Instrument Calibration. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/150385
Shepherd, K. D., Ferguson, R., Hoover, D., van Egmond, F., Sanderman, J., & Ge, Y. (2022). A Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service. Soil Security, 100061. 10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100061
Sanderman, J., Savage, K., Dangal, S.R.S., Duran, G., et al. (2021) Can agricultural management induced changes in soil organic carbon be detected using mid-infrared Spectroscopy? Remote Sensing, 13, 2265. 10.3390/rs13122265
Gholizadeh, A., Neumann, C., Chabrillat, S., van Wesemael, B., et al. (2021). Soil organic carbon estimation using VNIR-SWIR spectroscopy: The effect of multiple sensors and scanning condition. Soil and Tillage Research, 211, 105017. 10.1016/j.still.2021.105017
van Egmond, F. M., Ferguson, R., Shepherd, K. D., Peng, Y., et al. (2021) A Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service. ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2021am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/138364
Pittaki-Chrysodonta, Z., Hartemink, A., Sanderman, J., Ge, Y., Huang, J. (2021). Evaluation three calibration transfer methods for predictions of soil properties using mid-infrared spectroscopy. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 10.1002/saj2.20225
Dangal, S.R.S., Sanderman, J. (2020). Is standardization necessary for sharing a large mid-infrared soil spectral library? Sensors, 20, 6729. 10.3390/s20236729
Sanderman, J., Todd-Brown, K.E., Hengl, T., Dangal, S.R.S., et al. (2020). Spectroscopy to fill the soil data gap. ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting. November 2020. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2020am/prelim.cgi.Paper.131585
Sanderman, J., Dangal, S.R.S., Todd-Brown, K.E., Hengl, T., et al. (2020). Filling the soil data gap. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. December 2020. http://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/713137
Sanderman, J. (2021) Which emerging approaches can enable widespread soil carbon measurement and monitoring? ISCN | AGU | USDA Climate Hubs series. July 13 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtru5wzwgQ&t=1958s
Luce, M. S., Ziadi, N., & Viscarra Rossel, R. A. (2022). GLOBAL-LOCAL: A new approach for local predictions of soil organic carbon content using large soil spectral libraries. Geoderma, 425, 116048. 10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116048
Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Behrens, T., Ben‐Dor, E., Chabrillat, S., et al. (2022). Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for estimating soil properties: A technology for the 21st century. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(4), e13271. 10.1111/ejss.13271
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Summerauer, L., Baumann, P., Ramirez-Lopez, L., Barthel, M., et al. (2021). The central African soil spectral library: a new soil infrared repository and a geographical prediction analysis. Soil, 7(2), 693-715. 10.5194/soil-7-693-2021
Sanderman, J., Savage, K., & Dangal, S. R. (2020). Mid‐infrared spectroscopy for prediction of soil health indicators in the United States. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 84(1), 251-261. 10.1002/saj2/20009
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