Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL): Building reproducible soil calibration models through open development and community engagement.

ABSTRACT: Soil spectroscopy is a widely used method for estimating soil properties that are important to environmental and agricultural monitoring. However, a bottleneck to its more widespread adoption is the need for establishing large reference datasets for training machine learning (ML) models, which are called soil spectral libraries (SSLs). Similarly, the prediction capacity of new samples is also subject to the number and diversity of soil types and conditions represented in the SSLs. To help bridge this gap and enable hundreds of stakeholders to collect more affordable soil data by leveraging a centralized open resource, the Soil Spectroscopy for Global Good initiative has created the Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL). In this paper, we describe the procedures for collecting and harmonizing s

SUBMITTER: Safanelli JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11730021 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature