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Title:   Author  item
                                            Reeves  Iii, Jamesitem
                                            McCarty, Gregoryitem
                                            REEVES, V - CVM/FDA/BELTSVILLE,MDitem
                                            FOLLETT, R - SPNRU/FORT COLLINS,COitem
                                            KIMBLE, J - NSSL/NRCS/LINCOLN, NE
  Submitted to: Agronomy Abstracts
                                    Publication Type: Abstract Only
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 11/11/2002
                                    Publication  Date: N/A
                                    Citation: N/AInterpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: The determination of soil carbon is an important aspect of studies ranging from soil chemistry to C sequestration and global warming.  Traditional methods vary from chemical oxidation which has inherent accuracy problems to combustion which while highly accurate is expensive and time consuming.  Also, combustion requires two determinations (one after acidification of the soil to remove carbonates) in order to determine both organic and inorganic C.  With the increasing need to analyze thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousand of soil samples in C sequestration determinations, accurate and rapid methods of determining both organic and inorganic C in soils are urgently needed.  Studies using both near- and mid-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy have demonstrated that both methods can accurately, rapidly and simultaneously determine organic and inorganic C in soils.  However, there are factors which need to be considered before one method is chosen for building the soil databases needed for C sequestration.  Thus, while the mid-infrared produces more accurate calibrations with fewer outlier problems, the instrumentation is not nearly as advanced with respect to sample handing.  For example, in the near-infrared one can chose from large sample cells, rotating sample cells or fiber optic probes.  However, in the mid-infrared one is limited to non-rotating sample cells in which only a sample area with a diameter of 2 mm is scanned, thus resulting in greater problems with sample heterogeneity, etc.


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