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Applied and Environmental Soil Science
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 294121, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/294121
Research Article

Effects of Subsetting by Carbon Content, Soil Order, and Spectral Classification on Prediction of Soil Total Carbon with Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy

Meryl L. McDowell,1 Gregory L. Bruland,1,2 Jonathan L. Deenik,3 and Sabine Grunwald4

1Natural Resources and Environmental Management Department, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, 1910 East-West Road, Sherman 101, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
2Biology & Natural Resources Department, Principia College, 1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, IL 62028, USA
3Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
4Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida, 2169 McCarty Hall, P.O. Box 110290, Gainesville, FL 32611-0290, USA

Received 15 March 2012; Revised 20 August 2012; Accepted 14 October 2012

Academic Editor: Sabine Chabrillat

Copyright © 2012 Meryl L. McDowell et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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