There are tens of millions of contaminated soil sites in the world, and with an increasing
population and associated risk there is a growing pressure to remediate them. A barrier to …

In the last thirty years, portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has grown from prototypes to
being a key technique for field geochemical analyses, especially for mining and …

Soil map**, classification, and pedologic modeling have been important drivers in the
advancement of our understanding of soil from the earliest days of the scientific study of …

Contemporary soil, agronomic, and environmental investigations require high quality data
for the development of sound management decisions. For years, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …

This research evaluates the analytical capabilities of a field portable X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer (pXRF) for the measurement of contaminated soil samples using a matrix …

Soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) is an important measure of soil fertility, owing to the
large number of plant essential nutrients which are taken up by plants as cations. However …

The idea that human health is tied to the soil is not a new one. As far back as circa 1400 BC
the Bible depicts Moses as understanding that fertile soil was essential to the well-being of …

Proximal sensors have been increasingly used for a variety of purposes worldwide, with
great interest on portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometry applications in Soil …

Soil total carbon (TC) and total nitrogen (TN) both play critical roles in soil health and
ecosystem dynamics. The former is involved in soil structural formation, atmospheric carbon …

The rapid development of the smelting industry increases the release of antimony (Sb) into
the soil environment, which threatens human health and ecosystems. A total of 87 samples …