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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-525-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-525-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Original research article
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18 Aug 2021
Original research article |
| 18 Aug 2021
| 18 Aug 2021
Developing the Swiss mid-infrared soil spectral library for local estimation and monitoring
Philipp Baumann
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS), ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Competence Center for Soils (KOBO), School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, Bern, Switzerland
Anatol Helfenstein
Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS), ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands
Andreas Gubler
Swiss Soil Monitoring Network (NABO), Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
Armin Keller
Swiss Competence Center for Soils (KOBO), School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, Bern, Switzerland
Reto Giulio Meuli
Swiss Soil Monitoring Network (NABO), Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
Daniel Wächter
Swiss Soil Monitoring Network (NABO), Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland
Juhwan Lee
Department of Smart Agro-industry, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52725, Republic of Korea
Raphael Viscarra Rossel
Soil and Landscape Science, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia
Johan Six
Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS), ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
We developed the Swiss mid-infrared spectral library and a statistical model collection across 4374 soil samples with reference measurements of 16 properties. Our library incorporates soil from 1094 grid locations and 71 long-term monitoring sites. This work confirms once again that nationwide spectral libraries with diverse soils can reliably feed information to a fast chemical diagnosis. Our data-driven reduction of the library has the potential to accurately monitor carbon at the plot scale.
We developed the Swiss mid-infrared spectral library and a statistical model collection across...
