Presentations | 3rd meeting of GLOSOLAN

28 - 30 October 2019, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy

Item 1: Report of the work performed by GLOSOLAN in 2018-2019, Nopmanee Suvannang
Item 2: Report of he Asian Soil Laboratory Network (SEALNET), Jamyang
Item 3: Report from the Latin American Soil Laboratory Network (LATSOLAN), Floria Bertsch
Item 4: Report from the African Soil Laboratory Network (AFRILAB), Joseph Uponi
Item 5: Report from the Pacific Soil Laboratory Network (ASPAC), Rob De Hayr
Item 6: Report from the European and Eurasian Soil Laboratory Network (EUROSOLAN), Giorgi Ghambashidze
Item 7: Report from the Near East and North African (NENA) Soil Laboratory Network, Karim Shahbazi
Item 8: Plenary Discussion Q&A
Item 9: Report on the results of the GLOSOLAN PT 2019, Christian Hartmann
Item 10: Q&A and way forward
Item 11: Discussion on PT and internal control documents, Charles Gowing
- Survey to identify potential samples providers (document 11a)
- Basic guidelines on how to produce a sample for internal control and proficiency testing (document 11b)
- Individual laboratory schedule reporting (document 11c) and criteria to identify labs participating in global PT
Item 12: Review of the procedure to prepare and validate SOPs, Nopmanee Suvannang
Item 13: SOP on sample pre-treatment, Charles Gowing
Side event anticipation: Promoting standardized and Earth Observationaware Soil Spectral Libraries for land monitoring: Lessons learned from GEO-CRADLE and the EuroGEO perspective, George Zalidis
Item 14: SOP on Organic Carbon by Walkley and Black, Gina Nilo
Side event on spectroscopy
How to develop a sop
Slide event on spectroscopy:
- Introduction to spectroscopy, Richard Ferguson
- Specsolo: Scalable soil carbon analytical platform by FT-NIRS & machine learning, Daniel Vidal Pérez
- Deploying ICP into Work, Egon Hirvesoo
- The use of atomic spectroscopy for environmental monitoring (soil, plant materials, natural waters), Elena Shamrikova
- Danish soil spectral library, Maria Knadel
- Calibration in spectroscopy: how to reduce the matrix effect in soil analysis?, Marija Romić
- Using MIR spectroscopy to predict soil organic carbon and soil organic matter for the soil survey program in the USA, Richard Ferguson
- Soil Spectroscopy – to explain and predict different soil systems, Thembinkosi Crocodile Mbedzi
- Agricultural Research Centre
- Zimbabwe soil laboratory network
- GLOSOLAN
Item 15: SOP on total carbon by dry combustion, Floria Bertsch
Item 16: SOP on calcium carbonate equivalent by Calcimetry and Titrimetric Method, Karim Shahbazi
Item 17: Plenary Discussion and Decision Making – SOPs to develop in 2019-2020, Lucrezia Caon, Nopmanee Suvannang
Item 18: Development of transfer functions, Richard Ferguson
Item 19: Open discussion
Item 20: Interactions between GLOSOLAN and the GSP Pillar 4, Yusuf Yigini & Christian Omuto
Item 21: Harmonizing spectroscopy: progresses, needs and way forward, Fenny van Egmond
Item 23: Development of the GLOSOLAN terminology and upcoming global surveys
- Spectral soil data: needs and capacities questionnaire (leader, Fenny van Egmond, ISRIC)
- The future of soil laboratory (leader EMBRABA, Brazil)
Item 24: GLOSOLAN governance, webpage, new partners, Lucrezia Caon
Item 25: The future of soil laboratories. Review of the GLOSOLAN work plan and decisions for the year 2018-2019, Lucrezia Caon