Nanosized iron, manganese and aluminium oxides are abundant in soils and sediments, but
are also present in water and air, and are even produced within living organisms. These …

Minerals control many soil functions and play a crucial role in addressing global existential
issues. Measuring the abundance of soil minerals is a laborious, costly, and time-consuming …

Industrial and agricultural activities are develo** faster than the public policy on the use of
soil resources. The world needs more information about soil for land use planning and …

Humic acids (HA) have a colloidal character whose size and negative charge are strictly
dependent on surface functional groups. They are able to complex large amount of poorly …

Soil science has sought to develop better techniques for the classification of soils, one of
which is the use of remote sensing applications. The use of ground sensors to obtain soil …

The demand for quality and low-cost soil information is growing due to the demands of land
use planning and precision agriculture. Soil texture is one of the key soil properties, as it …

This study demonstrated the use of visible-near infrared (vis-NIR) reflectance spectroscopy
and partial least squares regression (PLSR) for the effective analysis of important properties …

Mineral dust represents one of the main components of particulate matter (PM) in the
Mediterranean area. The rapid identification of Saharan dust events in PM samples is …

The physical and chemical attributes of soils are strongly influenced by the nature of the
minerals they contain and their concentration. Thus, soil texture is directly dependent on the …

Mid-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (MIR-DRS, 2500 to 25000 nm) can provide
rapid, cheap and relatively accurate predictions for a number of soil properties. This paper …