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 ...

Farmers around the world could see major advances in soil testing capability thanks to a new grant from the US Department of Agriculture’s granting body, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), to Woodwell Climate Research Center, OpenGeoHub and the University of Florida. The million-dollar grant will launch the Soil Spectroscopy for the Global ...