Application of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy for the Assessment of Soil Quality in a Long-Term Pasture
2006
Butkute, B. | Slepetiene, A.
The objective of the present study was to assess the ability of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to analyze chemical soil properties and to evaluate the effects of different phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertilization rates on soil quality in different layers of a long-term pasture. The NIRS calibrations were developed for humus, total Kjeldahl nitrogen (N(Kjeldahl)), and several humic substances (HA1, "mobile" humic acids fraction; sigmaHA, sum of humic acids; FA1, "mobile" fulvic acids; sigmaFA, sum of fulvic acids, etc.) using soil samples of rather heterogeneous origin, collected during 1999-2003. Different spectral preprocessing and the modified partial least squares (MPLS) regression method were explored to enhance the relation between the spectra and measured soil properties. The equations were employed for the quality prediction of a sod gleyic light loam (Cambisol) in five PK fertilization treatments. The soil was sampled in 2000 and 2003 in three field replicates at depths of 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, and 30-50 cm, n = 60 samples yr(-1). The best coefficients of correlation, R2, between the reference and NIRS-predicted data were as follows: for N(Kjeldahl), 0.965; humus, 0.938; HA1, 0.903; HA2, 0.905; HA3, 0.924; sigmaHA, 0.904; and FA1, 0.911; and sigmaFA, 0.885. Our findings suggest that it is feasible to use NIRS for the assessment of the effects of the inorganic PK fertilizer on the soil quality in different depths of a long-term pasture.
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