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So far this year, Malvern Panalytical has hosted three webinars related to NIR technology and products such as FieldSpec and TerraSpec 4. Two of these virtual events were presented by renowned external speakers. All presentations generated considerable interest from attendees.
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Field Spectrometry as an Innovative Tool for Precision Agriculture
Presented by: Robert Cocciardi, Business Development Manager, Pharmaceutical and Food Sector- Canada
Precision agriculture, aka precision farming, is an approach to farming that uses technological tools to understand how to grow crops more efficiently. One of the portable technologies increasingly used in precision farming are portable vis-near-infrared spectrometers, such as the Malvern Panalytical FieldSpec, owing to the wide amount of information that can be obtained using this technology. The FieldSpec can be used to take spectral data of soils and plants in the field which can then be processed to give information on important parameters such as soil organic matter, soil cation exchange capacity, plant nitrogen and plant chlorophyll content amongst others. This webinar will explore the potential applications and examples of how the FieldSpec can be used as important data tool for precision agriculture.
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Spectral applications in gold exploration: orogenic gold and regolith environments
Presented by: Ned Howard, Principal Geologist – Technical – Evolution Mining
The talk will review aspects of the hydrothermal alteration mineral zonation associated with orogenic gold deposits, particularly those formed in deeply weathered Archaean greenstone environments, and how SWIR analysis can be used to better map alteration through complicated regolith.
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The role of NIR spectroscopy in sensing crop status in field
Presented by: Ahmad Al-Mallahi, Assistant Professor and the McCains Research Chair at Dalhousie University
This presentation demonstrates one important application of spectral signatures in understanding the nutrient status in plant leaves, where our case study is applied on potatoes. Nutrients are absorbed from the soil and transported in different directions inside the plants depending on different factors that include the stage of growth. Many nutrients are needed in the leaves, and it has been found that petioles contain representative amount of nutrients during long periods of the potato growth cycle. However, petiole analysis is a destructive method that we can replace by finding spectral signatures in the leaves if we find the correct tools to collect the data and the correct mathematical methods to interpret them. The ability to collect these data in the field under ambient conditions opens doors to quick and on-the-go decision-making in the future.
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Stay tuned for upcoming NIR webinars in 2022!