Prediction of total carbon, total nitrogen, and pH of organic materials using visible near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy

Mervin St. Luce; Noura Ziadi; Bernard Gagnon; Vicky Lévesque

doi:10.1139/cjss-2017-0109

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Mervin St. Luce,^1,* Noura Ziadi,^2,** Bernard Gagnon,² Vicky Lévesque²

¹aSwift Current Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, P.O. Box 1030, Swi
²bQuebec Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2560 Hochelaga boulevard,

^*Corresponding author: Mervin St. Luce (email: mervin.st.luce@agr.gc.ca).
^**Noura Ziadi currently serves as an Associate Editor; peer review and editorial decisions regarding this manuscript were handled by Woo-Jung Choi.

Abstract

We used visible near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRS) to characterize a set of organic materials (n = 75). Good predictions for total carbon, excellent predictions for total nitrogen, but poor predictions for pH were found. This preliminary study showed that VNIRS could rapidly characterize organic materials before soil application.

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Mervin St. Luce, Noura Ziadi, Bernard Gagnon, and Vicky Lévesque "Prediction of total carbon, total nitrogen, and pH of organic materials using visible near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy," Canadian Journal of Soil Science 98(1), 175-179, (21 December 2017). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjss-2017-0109

Received: 2 October 2017; Accepted: 1 December 2017; Published: 21 December 2017