Soil Spectral Inference with R

Alexandre Wadoux is Research Associate in soil science at the University of Sydney and member of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Australia. Brendan Malone is Senior Research Scientist in soil science at CSIRO Canberra, Australia. Budiman Minasny is Professor in soil-landscape modelling at the University of Sydney, Australia. Mario Fajardo is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Precision Agriculture Laboratory of the University of Sydney, Australia. Alex McBratney is Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science at the University of Sydney and Director of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Australia.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Getting Started with R.- 3. Material.- 4. Data Handling of Spectra.- 5. Pre-Processing of Spectra.- 6. Similarity between Spectra and the Detection of Outlier.- 7. Selection of the Calibration Sample.- 8. Estimating Soil Properties and Classes from Spectra.- 9. Spectral Transformation.