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Measuring Soil Organic Matter (SOM) with a Field Spectroradiometer

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Measuring Soil Organic Matter (SOM) with a Field Spectroradiometer

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Soil organic matter (SOM) is the basis for healthy vegetation. Soil organic matter greatly influences physical and chemical soil properties. As soil organic matter decreases, growing plants becomes increasingly difficult due to problems with fertility, water availability, compaction, erosion, parasites, diseases, and insects. Measuring organic matter in soil by traditional methods is slow and labor intensive. Using an NIR field spectroradiometer for in situ measurements is faster, easier, accurate and less expensive. Nondestructive field measurements can be made with our contact probes or our benchtop probe with compactor.

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