Good soil management requires large amounts of soil data which are expensive to provide using traditional laboratory methods. Soil infrared spectroscopy including portable/miniaturized visible-infrared spectrometers offers a cost-effective solution. There… Click to show full abstract
Good soil management requires large amounts of soil data which are expensive to provide using traditional laboratory methods. Soil infrared spectroscopy including portable/miniaturized visible-infrared spectrometers offers a cost-effective solution. There is a need to test and compare the performance of portable/miniaturized mid-infrared (MIR) and visible-near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectrometers for the prediction of soil properties across a range of soils. For this assessment, 458 soil samples from Australia were scanned by four vis-NIR and MIR portable/miniature spectrometers and partial least squares regressions (PLSR) applied for the prediction of 17 properties in soils dried at 40 °C and sieved to
               
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