Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-717-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-717-2021
Original research article
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27 Oct 2021
Original research article |  | 27 Oct 2021

Estimation of soil properties with mid-infrared soil spectroscopy across yam production landscapes in West Africa

Philipp Baumann, Juhwan Lee, Emmanuel Frossard, Laurie Paule Schönholzer, Lucien Diby, Valérie Kouamé Hgaza, Delwende Innocent Kiba, Andrew Sila, Keith Sheperd, and Johan Six

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This work delivers openly accessible and validated calibrations for diagnosing 26 soil properties based on mid-infrared spectroscopy. These were developed for four regions in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, including 80 fields of smallholder farmers. The models can help to site-specifically and cost-efficiently monitor soil quality and fertility constraints to ameliorate soils and yields of yam or other staple crops in the four regions between the humid forest and the northern Guinean savanna.