Soil Analysis | Global Soil Partnership | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (original) (raw)

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.