Field-portable visible/near-infrared spectrophotometer for mapping soil carbon in Canada's ecosystems

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We are requesting a field portable instrument that measures the reflectance of visible and near-infrared radiation down a soil profile. This instrument is called a visible/near-infrared (VIS/NIR) spectrophotometeric probe. This probe can accurately assess soil carbon contents in a soil and is used by simply inserting the probe into the soil. Because this instrument measures soil carbon very quickly and at no cost, it will allow us to construct very finely detailed maps of soil carbon in the Arctic, provincial Norths and agricultural ecosystem. We need to do this because soil carbon varies quite a bit across a field and getting a precise estimate using traditional techniques requires a large number of samples which are costly and time consuming. In contrast, this probe will allow us to do the work of a few weeks of laboratory analysis in an afternoon.