portable FTIR spectrometer; mid-infrared soil spectroscopy; benchmarking; noise analysis; continuous wavelet transform; multivariate calibration; partial least squares; spectral variable selection

Comparison of Portable and Bench-Top Spectrometers for Mid-Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Measurements of Soils

Mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy has received widespread interest as a method to complement traditional soil analysis. Recently available portable MIR spectrometers additionally offer potential for on-site applications, given sufficient spectral data …