“…The SW-NIR is becoming increasingly popular, as noted by recent publications [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]. In relation to near-infrared and mid-infrared spectroscopy, this region has the advantage that the spectra can be obtained using inexpensive fibre optics, it can utilize long path lengths through hydrocarbon mixtures (1-5 cm), and it can be measured with very inexpensive light sources (tungsten lamps) and detectors (silicon diode array) [16] in the common visible region.…”