http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership This presentation was made during the International Workshop "Soil Spectroscopy: the present and future of Soil Monitoring" that took place at FAO HQ Rome, Italy from 4-6 December 2013. This presentation was made by Matt Aitkenhead, Malcolm Coull & Jean Robertson, and it has the objective to present Prediction of soil properties with NIR data and site descriptors using preprocessing and neural networks. ©FAO: http://www.fao.org