d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:29 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Soil mid-infrared spectroscopy data from arable and grassland in Countryside Survey, Great Britain 2007 2020-08-26 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 10.5285/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 doi: Keith, A.M., Dodd, B.A., Turner, G., Vane, C.H., Wood, C.M. (2020). Soil mid-infrared spectroscopy data from arable and grassland in Countryside Survey, Great Britain 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 This dataset consists of mid-infrared (MIR) spectra measured on 427 archived soil samples from arable and grassland habitats across Great Britain in 2007. Data on diffuse reflectance spectra were obtained from subsamples of finely ground soil, recorded as absorbance values for wavenumber range 4000-400 cm-1. The soil samples were collected as part of the Countryside Survey monitoring programme, a unique study or 'audit' of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The analyses were conducted as part of study aiming to quantify how soil quality indicators change across a gradient of agricultural land management and to identify conditions that determine the ability of different soils to resist and recover from perturbations. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 Keith, A.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9619-1320 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Dodd, B.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Turner, G. British Geological Survey ght@bgs.ac.uk author Vane, C.H. British Geological Survey chv@bgs.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8150-3640 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Wood, C.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Keith, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication soil GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Environmental survey Soil Countryside Survey otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Keith, A.M., Dodd, B.A., Turner, G., Vane, C.H., Wood, C.M. (2020). Soil mid-infrared spectroscopy data from arable and grassland in Countryside Survey, Great Britain 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 textTable 10000 English utf8 environment biota 2007-01-01 2007-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d66ca0a6-403d-4f5a-bef1-8ee177f1e1b3.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Soil samples were collected in 2007 by Countryside Survey field surveyors, who were provided with a field sampling manual and underwent training for sample collection and processing. Protocols were also provided to cover all aspects of processing of the soil cores from logging in of cores as they arrived at the laboratory to basic measurements, chemical analysis and archiving the final samples. Soils were sieved to 2 mm and air-dried before storage. Each soil sample was scanned twice to obtain repeat spectra, with the sample cup being rotated 180 degrees between scans, and the average of these two spectra included in the dataset. Each individual spectrum (i.e. both from the paired scans) was visually inspected and those containing scanning errors were discarded. All MIR analyses were conducted at the Organic Geochemistry Facility, BGS (contact chv@bgs.ac.uk for details).