Soil Analysis

GLOSOLAN is working to improve the proficiency of soil laboratories in Soil Analysis, in both wet and dry chemistry (soil spectroscopy) by:

WET CHEMISTRY:

• Harmonizing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for known methods;
• Developing the capacity of laboratories in Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC). This includes the organization of global and regional proficiency tests;
• Promoting good practices on Equipment purchasing/donation, use and maintenance;
• Promoting good practices on Health and safety;
• Providing regular trainings to laboratories.

DRY CHEMISTRY (soil spectroscopy):

• Build a globally representative calibrated soil spectral library (database) based on MIR spectra with accompanying soil property reference data recorded in one gold-standard reference laboratory;
• Provide a freely available and easy-to-use soil property estimation service based on the evolving GLOSOLAN global MIR spectral library;
• Support countries to contribute to the GLOSOLAN global spectral calibration library and use the soil property estimation service;
• Harmonize soil spectroscopy methods (including soil sample preparation, spectral measurement and quality assurance of data analysis) by developing standard and protocols;
• Develop the capacity of countries and labs in the performance of lab-based soil spectroscopy measurements.

All training material produced by GLOSOLAN come with a video tutorial recorded in one of the laboratories registered in the network. All laboratories interested in recording a video tutorial are kindly asked to contact the GLOSOLAN coordinator at [email protected]. Instructions on how the videos should be recorded are available in the Good practices on recording training videos for the Global Soil Laboratory Network.