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Day 1 - Monday, May 16, 2011

Workshop Opening
V. Adamchuk
Opening remarks from the conference chair
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R. Viscarra Rossel
Opening remarks from the workgroup chair
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S. Prasher
Welcome to McGill University
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Session 1 - Soil electrical conductivity/resistivity sensing
Chair: A. McBratney and Reporter: E. Lund
K. Sudduth An incomplete history of proximal soil sensing Presentation
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E. Lueck Resistivity mapping with Geophilus electricus – information about lateral and vertical soil heterogeneity Presentation
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C. Hedley Soil water status and water table modelling using EM surveys for precision irrigation scheduling Presentation
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J. Molin The influence of soil moisture on the spatial and temporal variability of soil electrical conductivity Presentation
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D. Altdorff Observation of soil moisture dynamic at a landslide affected Alpine hillside using electromagnetic induction (EMI) and Kmeans clustering Presentation
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V. Patil Effects of quality of water and irrigation regimes on temporal changes in soil EC and yield of greenhouse-grown bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Presentation
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Session 2 - Advanced geophysical methods in soil science
Chair: R. Khosla and Reporter: R. Gebbers
B. Allred Agricultural geophysics: past/present accomplishments and future advancements Presentation
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K. Sudduth Mapping conductivity-depth relationships by combining proximal and penetrating ECa sensors Presentation
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G. Coulouma Comparisons of diachronic ERT and Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves for estimating bedrock depth Presentation
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P. DeSmedt Continuous multi-signal EMI survey in geoarchaeological research: a 90 ha dataset Presentation
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M. Mahmoudzadeh Clay content and soil moisture mapping using on-ground time-domain GPR Presentation
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Session 3 - Integrated sensing strategies
Chair: R. Ferguson and Reporter: J. Molin
R. Gebbers Evaluation of soil sensor fusion for mapping macronutrients and soil pH
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M. VanMeirvenne Key properties for delineating soil management zones Presentation
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K. Piikki Sensor data fusion for topsoil clay mapping of an agricultural field Presentation
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M. Kroulik Proximal soil sensing in the framework of iSOIL project Presentation
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F. Veronesi 3D soil compaction mapping with a three-coefficient polynomial
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R. Khosla Early detection of nitrogen deficiency in corn using fluorescence Presentation
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Day 2 - Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Session 4 - In situ soil spectroscopy
Chair: K. Sudduth and Reporter: B. Stenberg

R. Viscarra Rossel
Proximal soil spectroscopy
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E. Lund
Proximal sensing of soil organic matter using the Veris® OpticMapper™ Presentation
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A. Mouazen On-the-go measurement of key soil properties in European farms
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L. Brodsky Utilization of VNIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy to map soil erosion study on two arable fields Presentation
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M. Kodaira Dozen-soil-parameter mapping using a real-time soil spectrophotometer Presentation
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Y. Nagami Soil P2O5 calibration and mapping using Real-Time Soil Sensor (RTSS) Presentation
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Session 5 - Spectroscopic data analysis
Chair: A. Mouazen and Reporter: C. Hedley

F. Deng
Development of near infrared spectral library of Danish soils
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K. Kusnierek Pre-processing of soil visible and near infrared spectra taken in laboratory and field conditions to improve the within-field soil organic carbon multivariate calibration Presentation
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M. Nocita Improving spectral techniques to determine soil organic carbon by accounting for soil moisture effects Presentation
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A. McBratney Removing the effect of soil moisture from NIR diffuse reflectance spectra for prediction of soil carbon Presentation
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C. Morgan Using soil spectral libraries in support of proximal soil sensing Presentation
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H. Bartholomeus Improved spectral estimation of multiple soil properties by stratification on ancillary and spectral data Presentation
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Session 6 - Radiometric methods in soil science
Chair: B. Allred and Reporter: E. Lueck

C. Waring
What can you measure with neutron activation analysis?
Presentation
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E. Loonstra Gamma and Electro Magnetics: a multi-sensor approach for the mapping of water related soil properties Presentation
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C. Dierke Towards a better understanding of γ-ray for soil mapping – analysis of γ-ray measurements at field sites across Europe Presentation
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S. Mahmood Estimating soil properties with a proximal gamma-ray spectrometer using windows and full-spectrum analysis methods Presentation
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T. Mulder Soil mapping at regional scale using ASTER and VNIR spectroscopy Presentation
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L. Ramirez-Lopez New approaches of soil similarity analysis using manifold-based metric learning from proximal vis–NIR sensing data Presentation
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Session 7 - Scope of proximal soil sensing
Chair: M. Van Meirvenne and Reporter: N. Tremblay

A. McBratney
Defining proximal soil sensing Presentation
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J. Lowenberg-DeBoer The economics of direct soil sensing in agriculture Presentation
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S. Priori Improving wine quality through a harvest zoning based upon the combined use of proximal and remote sensing
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A. Castrignano An approach for delineating homogeneous zones by using proximal and remote sensing Presentation
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V. Adamchuk On-the-go soil sensors – are we there yet? Presentation
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Field Day - Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Field Day Session
C. Begg
Overview of Quebec soils Presentation
M. Catalano Geonics Limited (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
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E. Lund Veris Technologies, Inc. (Salina, Kansas, USA) Presentation
E. Loonstra The Soil Company (Groningen, The Netherlands) Presentation
R. Taylor
DUALEM, Inc. (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
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D. Rooney
Soil and Topography Information, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
Presentation
R. Viscarra Rossel Closing remarks
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