Spectral data mining for rapid measurement of organic matter in unsieved moist compost

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2013

Abstract

Fifty-five compost samples were collected and scanned as received by visible and near-IR (VisNIR, 350-2500 nm) diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The raw reflectance and first-derivative spectra were used to predict log10-transformed organic matter (OM) using partial least squares (PLS) regression, penalized spline regression (PSR), and boosted regression trees (BRTs). Incorporating compost pH, moisture percentage, and electrical conductivity as auxiliary predictors along with reflectance, both PLS and PSR models showed comparable cross-validation r2and validation root-mean-square deviation (RMSD). The BRTreflectance model exhibited best predictability (residual prediction deviation = 1.61, crossvalidation r2= 0.65, and RMSD = 0.09 log10%). These results proved that the VisNIR BRT model, along with easy-to measure auxiliary variables, has the potential to quantify compost OM with reasonable accuracy. © 2013 Optical Society of America.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Applied Optics

First Page

B82

Last Page

B92

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