Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon at the European Scale by Visible and Near InfraRed Reflectance Spectroscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Stevens, Antoine ^a   Nocita, Marco ^a,b   Tóth, Gergely ^b   Montanarella, Luca ^b   van Wesemael, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOIL;

ARTICLE; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EUROPE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAND; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84879224083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066409     Document Type: Article

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