Title: Investigation of soil properties using different techniques of mid‐infrared spectroscopy

Abstract

Summary Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRF), attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy (ATR) and Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) are useful techniques that are commonly used to characterize soil properties. Here, these techniques were used to evaluate individual properties of 1456 paddy soil samples from Nanjing, China, to explore their features in the mid‐infrared range. The diffuse reflectance spectroscopy showed broad and shouldered peaks that ranged from 4000 to 500 cm ⁻¹ . Attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy produced main peaks around 1000 cm ⁻¹ . Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy spectra showed several moderate intensity peaks in the regions of 4000–2600 and 2500–500 cm ⁻¹ . The effective variables (wavenumbers) were selected using an uninformative variable elimination (UVE) algorithm to predict soil pH, and soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (TN) and available phosphorus (AP) contents; it used a self‐adaptive partial least squares model (SAM–PLS). The results showed that selected wavenumbers improved the accuracy of prediction for pH, and SOM, TN and AP contents. For the prediction of pH, ATR spectra showed marginally better performance than the other spectra. The DRF spectroscopy was the optimal method for SOM and TN prediction. Available phosphorus contents were predicted poorly by all three spectra. Furthermore, mid‐infrared incident lightmore » paths, absorption modes, sensing styles, as well as peak interference and the prediction model, were the main factors that affected the assessment of soil properties in the three types of spectroscopy. Highlights Soil spectra data were measured with DRF, ATR and PAS spectrometers over the range 4000–500 cm ⁻¹ . A UVE algorithm was used to select effective wavenumbers from the full spectrum. The pH, SOM, TN and AP were estimated using three techniques based on a SAM–PLS model. Mid‐infrared incident light paths and absorption modes affected prediction performance of the three techniques.« less

Authors:

Ma, F. ^[1]; Du, C. W.  ^[1];

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Zhou, J. M. ^[1]; Shen, Y. Z. ^[1]

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1. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing, 210008 China

Publication Date:

Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2018

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE

OSTI Identifier:

1483732

Resource Type:

Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:

European Journal of Soil Science

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Name: European Journal of Soil Science Journal Volume: 70 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1351-0754

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell

Country of Publication:

United Kingdom

Language:

English