Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-219-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-219-2026
Data description paper
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08 Jan 2026
Data description paper |  | 08 Jan 2026

Austrian NIR soil spectral library for soil health assessments

Julia Fohrafellner, Maximilian Lippl, Armin Bajraktarevic, Andreas Baumgarten, Heide Spiegel, Robert Körner, and Taru Sandén

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Dataset to: Austrian NIR Soil Spectral Library for Soil Health Assessments (Version 4) J. Fohrafellner et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15772618

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The first openly accessible Austrian near-infrared (NIR) Soil Spectral Library was developed, including over 2100 samples covering all Austrian environmental zones. At present, the predictive accuracy for most properties was insufficient compared to routine laboratory analyses; however, several key properties showed predictive potential. We encourage using the open Library as a foundation for further spectral analysis and modelling and we support future soil health assessments via spectroscopy.
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