Analysis of visible and near infrared spectral reflectance for assessing metals in soil.

Visible and near infrared reflectance (VNIR; 350-2500 nm) spectroscopy has greatly been used in soils, especially for studying variability in spectrally active soil components (e.g., organic carbon, clays, and Fe/Al oxides) based on their diagnostic spectral features.

Thermal infrared spectrometer for Earth science remote sensing applications-instrument modifications and measurement procedures.

In this article we describe a new instrumental setup at the University of Twente Faculty ITC with an optimized processing chain to measure absolute directional-hemispherical reflectance values of typical earth science samples in the 2.5 to 16 μm range. A Bruker Vertex 70 FTIR spectrometer was chosen as the base instrument.