Open Soil Spectral Library

Welcome!

Welcome to the Open Soil Spectral Library (OSSL) manual!

The OSSL is a public and growing dataset that is compiled by the Soil Spectroscopy for Global Good initiative.

A peer-reviewed and open-access publication is available for additional reference.

Please navigate to the different sections to learn more about:

• 📘 About: Our team, OSSL resources, contributors, citation, and other information.
• 📘 Soil Spectroscopy: Soil spectroscopy in general, predictive modeling, imported soil spectral libraries, instruments and software.
• 📘 Database description: Database definitions, including variable names, types, human-readable description, and example values.
• 📘 Database access: Ways of accessing the OSSL.
• 📘 Neospectra database: Data, models, and studies from a low-cost NIR scanner.
• 📘 Predictive models: Fitted models with the OSSL.
• 📘 Web services: User-friendly and online applications.
• 📘 Hands-on tutorial: Training materials.
• 📘 Scientific publications: Papers that our team or collaborators have published.
• 📘 References.