I’m excited to announce that the US Department of Agriculture’s granting body, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), has selected our Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools Coordinated Innovation Network (FACT CIN) proposal “Soil Spectroscopy for the Global Good” for funding (award no. 2020-67021-32467). Many individuals contributed to the proposal development and provided greatly ...

The USDA NRCS National Soil Survey Center – Kellogg Soil Survey Laboratory (NSSC-KSSL) has been quietly building one of the world’s largest libraries of mid infrared (MIR) spectra for soils. These diffuse reflectance spectral data complement the high quality traditional analytical data that the laboratory routinely produces for a number of physical, chemical and biological ...