Generic prediction of soil organic carbon in alfisols using diffuse reflectance fourier-transform mid-infrared spectroscopy

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2358-2360

  Kamau Rewe, Mercy ^a,b   Rasche, Frank ^a   Cobo, Juan Guillermo ^a,c   Dercon, Gerd ^a,d   Shepherd, Keith D ^e   Cadisch, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Mombasa Branch   (Kenya)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFISOLS; CROSS VALIDATION; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; GENERIC QUANTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS; MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES REGRESSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL GROUPS; SOIL ORDERS; SOIL ORGANIC C; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SPECTRAL SUBTRACTIONS;

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; ORGANIC CARBON; REFLECTION;

SOILS;

ALFISOL; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HEATING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 83055178160     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0106N     Document Type: Article

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