Soil spectroscopy: an alternative to wet chemistry for soil monitoring

M Nocita, A Stevens, B van Wesemael… - Advances in …, 2015 - Elsevier
The soil science community is facing a growing demand of regional, continental, and
worldwide databases in order to monitor the status of the soil. However, the availability of
such data is very scarce. Cost-effective tools to measure soil properties for large areas (eg,
Europe) are required. Soil spectroscopy has shown to be a fast, cost-effective,
environmental-friendly, nondestructive, reproducible, and repeatable analytical technique.
The main aim of this paper is to describe the state of the art of soil spectroscopy as well as its …