“…A plethora of literature can be found on the use of vis-NIR spectroscopy for the rapid assessment of a wide range of soil physicochemical properties including pH, soil colour, soil texture, lime requirement, organic carbon, total carbon, total nitrogen, plant-available P, K, Mg, exchangeable Al, Ca, K, electrical conductivity Viscarra Rossel and Behrens, 2010;Viscarra Rossel et al, 2006a, b;Mouazen et al, 2006Mouazen et al, , 2007Mouazen et al, , 2009Mouazen, 2006;Maleki et al, 2006;Gomez et al, 2008a;Canasveras et al, 2010;Wetterlind et al, 2010). Other soil physicochemical properties are soil inorganic carbon, total iron, mineral composition, cation exchange capacity (Brown et al, 2006;Gomez et al, 2008b), moisture content, soil roughness, surface crust (Whiting et al, 2004;Mouazen et al, 2005;Dilawari et al, 2006), nitrogen Kjeldahl (NKj) content .…”