Dr Raphael Viscarra Rossel Publications

Full CSIRO Land and Water publications list

Pre-CSIRO Land and Water Publications

• Journal articles 
• Chapters in books
• Unpublished theses
• Book review
• Refereed full length conference papers
• Unrefereed conference papers 
• Conference posters and abstracts
• Other media 
• Software published on the web

Journal articles

Gomez C, Viscarra Rossel RA and McBratney AB. 2008. Soil organic carbon prediction by hyperspectral remote sensing and field vis-NIR spectroscopy: an Australian case study. Geoderma 146:403-411.

Tranter G, Minasny B, McBratney AB, Viscarra Rossel RA and Murphy B. 2008. Comparing spectral soil inference systems and mid-infrared spectroscopy predictions of soil volumetric moisture retention. Soil Science Society of America Journal 72: 1394-1400.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Jeon YS, Odeh IOA and McBratney AB. 2008. Using a legacy soil sample to develop a mid-IR spectral library. Australian Journal of Soil Research. 46: 1-16.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2008. ParLeS: Software for chemometric analysis of spectroscopic data. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 90: 72-83.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2007. Robust modelling of soil diffuse reflectance spectra by bagging-partial least squares regression. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy. 15: 39-47.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Taylor HJ and McBratney AB. 2007. Multivariate calibration of hyperspectral gamma-ray energy spectra for proximal soil sensing. European Journal of Soil Science. 58: 343-353. (Awarded best paper in pedometrics 2007)

Viscarra Rossel RA, McGlynn RN and McBratney AB. 2006. Determining the composition of mineral-organic mixes using UV-vis-NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. Geoderma 137: 70-82.

McBratney AB, Minasny B and Viscarra Rossel RA. 2006. Spectral soil analysis and inference systems: a powerful combination for solving the soil data crisis. Geoderma. 136: 272-278.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Minasny B, Roudier P and McBratney AB. 2006. Colour space models for soil science. Geoderma. 133: 320-337.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Walvoort DJJ, McBratney AB, Janik LJ and Skjemstad JO. 2006. Visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared or combined diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for simultaneous assessment of various soil properties. Geoderma. 131:59-75.

Walter C, McBratney AB, Viscarra Rossel RA & Markus JA. 2005. Spatial point-process statistics: concepts and application to the analysis of lead contamination in urban soil. Environmetrics. 16: 339-355.

Viscarra Rossel RA & Walter C. 2004. Rapid, quantitative and spatial field measurements of soil pH using an Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistor. Geoderma. 119: 9-20.

Walter C, Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2003. Spatio-temporal simulation of the field-scale evolution of organic carbon over the landscape. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 67(5): 1477-1486. (Awarded best paper in pedometrics 2003)

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2003. Modelling the kinetics of buffer reactions for rapid field predictions of lime requirement. Geoderma. 114: 49-63.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Pérez Hoyos A & Walter C. 2002. Estimations précises des besoins en chaux dans le Massif Armoricain. Etude et Gestion des Sols. 9(3): 197-212.

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2000. A two-factor empirical deterministic response surface calibration model for site-specific predictions of lime requirement. Precision Agriculture. 2: 163-178.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Goovaerts P & McBratney AB. 2001. Assessment of the production and economic risks of site-specific liming using geostatistical uncertainty modelling. Environmetrics. 12: 699-711. (Nominated best paper 2001 – Pedometrics)

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2001. A response surface calibration model for rapid and versatile site-specific lime requirement predictions in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research. 39:185-201.

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 1998. Soil chemical analytical accuracy and costs: implications from precision agriculture. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, Special Issue - Moving towards precision with soil and plant analysis. 38: 765-75.

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 1998. Laboratory evaluation of a proximal sensing technique for simultaneous measurement of clay and water content. Geoderma. 85: 19-39.

Chapters in books

Viscarra Rossel RA, McBratney AB. 2008. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy as a tool for digital soil mapping. In: Hartemink AE, McBratney AB and Mendonça-Santos L. (Eds). Digital soil mapping with limited data. Developments in Soil Science series. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.

Fouad Y, Viscarra Rossel RA, Aichi H, Walter C. 2007. Mesures spatialisées de propriétés physico-chimiques du sol au sein d'une parcelle par sonde ISFET et mesures hyperspectrales. In Guérif, M. et King, D. (Eds.) – Agriculture de Précision, Science update, Update Sciences & Technologies, Quae Publishers, Paris.

Unpublished theses

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2001. Development of a proximal soil sensing system for the continuous management of acid soil. Unpublished PhD Thesis. The University of Sydney.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 1995. Aspects of the concept of site-specific soil management. Unpublished Honours Thesis. The University of Sydney.

Book review

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2007. Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance—A Theoretical Introduction to Absorption Spectroscopy of Scattering Materials by Donald J. Dahm and Kevin D. Dahm. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy 15(5): 341–342.

Refereed full length conference papers

Viscarra Rossel RA & Lark RM. 2008. Using wavelets for the analysis of proximally sensed vis-NIR soil spectra. 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Mapping. The University of Sydney, 5-8 February.

Stenberg B & Viscarra Rossel RA. 2008. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for high resolution soil sensing. Keynote. 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Mapping. The University of Sydney, 5-8 February.

Lobsey C, Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2008. Proximal soil nutrient sensing using electrochemical sensors. 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Mapping. The University of Sydney, 5-8 February.

Bray J, Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2008. Diagnostic screening of urban soil contaminants using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Mapping. The University of Sydney, 5-8 February.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Gilbertsson M, Thylén L, Hansen O, McVey S & McBratney AB. 2005. Field measurements of soil pH and lime requirement using an on-the-go soil pH and lime requirement measurement system. ECPA 2005, Fifth European Conference on Precision Agriculture.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Walter C & Fouad Y. 2003. Assessment of two reflectance techniques for the quantification of field soil organic carbon. In Stafford J and Werner A. (Eds.), Precision agriculture. Fourth European Conference on Precision Agriculture, Berlin. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 697-703.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Walvoort DJJ, McBratney AB, Janik LJ & Skjemstad JO. 2001. Proximal sensing of soil pH and lime requirement by mid infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. In Grenier G and Blackmore S. (Eds), ECPA 2001, Third European Conference on Precision Agriculture, Vol. 1, Agro Montpellier, pp. 497-508.

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 1999. Calibration of a lime requirement buffer for site-specific lime applications in south-eastern Australia. In J.V. Stafford (ed.) Precision Agriculture '99, Vol. I, pp. 429-440.

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 1997. Preliminary experiments towards the evaluation of a suitable soil sensor for continuous, 'on-the-go' field pH measurements. John V. Stafford (ed.), Precision Agriculture '97, Proceedings of the First European Conference on Precision Agriculture, Warwick, 7-10 September 1997, pp. 493-501.

Unrefereed conference papers

Viscarra Rossel RA, McBratney AB & Minasny B. 2006. Spectral soil analysis and inference systems: a powerful combination for solving the soil data crisis. 18th World Congress of Soil Science, IUSS, 9-15 July 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2006. Soil spectroscopy as a tool for digital soil mapping. 2nd Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, 4-7 July 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thylén L, Viscarra Rossel RA, Gilbertsson M & McBratney AB. 2004. Development of an on-the-go soil pH and lime requirement sensing system. AgEng Conference Leuven, 12-16 September 2004, Belgium

Viscarra Rossel RA, Thylén L, McBratney AB & Gilbertsson M. 2004. Development of an on-the-go soil sensing system for determinations of soil pH and lime requirement. 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture. 2-28 July 2004, Minneapolis MN, USA.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Fouad Y & Walter C. 2002. Mesures spatialisées de propriétés du sol au sein d’une parcelle par sonde ISFET et mesures hyperspectrales. Thème 4 - Analyse Spatiale, 7èmes Journées Nationales d'Etude des Sols, 22-24 Octobre 2002, Orléans, France.

Viscarra Rossel RA & Walter C. 2002. Towards quantitative assessment of field soil organic carbon using proximally sensed digital imagery. Symposium No. 48, paper No. 1523. 17th World Congress of Soil Science, Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre 14-21 August 2002, Bangkok, Thailand.

Goovaerts P, Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 2002. Geostatistical modeling and propagation of uncertainty: application to the management of agricultural fields. Proceedings of IAMG02, Berlin, 15-20 September, 2002

McBratney AB, Whelan BM & Viscarra Rossel RA. 1996. Implications of Precision Agriculture for Soil Resource Assessment. ASSI & NZSSS National Soils Conference, Melbourne, Volume 2, pp.161-162.

Whelan BM, McBratney AB & Viscarra Rossel RA. 1996. Spatial Prediction for Precision Agriculture. Proceedings of the 3rd. international conference on precision agriculture. Bloomington/Minneapolis, Minnesota. ASA/CSSA/SSSA, pp.331-342.

Conference posters and abstracts

Viscarra Rossel RA & Lark RM. 2007 Multivariate calibration of wavelet transformed soil spectra. Pedometrics 2007, 27-30 August, Tubingen University, Tubingen Germany. (Awarded best poster paper – Pedometrics).

Viscarra Rossel RA, Jeon YS, Odeh IOA and McBratney AB. 2008. Using a legacy soil sample to develop a mid-IR spectral library. Pedometrics 2007, 27-30 August, Tubingen University, Tubingen Germany. (Awarded best poster paper – Pedometrics).

Viscarra Rossel RA, Taylor HJ and McBratney AB. 2007. Proximal sensing using -ray energy hyperspectra spectra. Pedometrics 2007, 27-30 August, Tubingen University, Tubingen Germany. (Awarded best poster paper – Pedometrics).

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2006. Robust predictions of soil properties with uncertainty using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and bagging-PLSR. 18th World Congress of Soil Science, IUSS, July 9-15, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Viscarra Rossel RA, McGlynn RN and McBratney AB. 2006. Determining the composition of mineral-organic mixes using UV-vis-NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. 18th World Congress of Soil Science, IUSS, July 9-15, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

McBratney AB, Viscarra Rossel RA, Taylor H, Taylor JA, Short M, Minasny B and Whelan B. 2006. Development of a multi-sensor platform for proximal soil sensing. 18th World Congress of Soil Science, IUSS, July 9-15, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. ParLeS v2.0 - freeware to pre-process spectra and perform Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression with delete-one-jackknife cross validation. Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy. 28-30 September, University of Sydney, Australia.

Stewart C & Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. An evaluation of Pre-Processing Techniques for PLS Modelling of Diffuse Reflectance Spectra. Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy. 28-30 September, University of Sydney, Australia.

McBratney AB, Minasny B & Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. Spectral Soil Inference Systems, SPEC-SINFERS. Pedometrics 2005, 12-14 September 2005, Florida.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. ParLeS v2.0 - freeware to pre-process spectra and perform Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression with delete-one-jackknife cross validation. Pedometrics 2005, 12-14 September 2005, Florida.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. Improved modelling of soil diffuse reflectance spectra using wavelet analysis. Pedometrics 2005, 12-14 September 2005, Florida.

Viscarra Rossel RA, Walvoort DJJ, McBratney AB, Janik LJ and Skjemstad JO. 2005. Visible, near-infrared, mid-infrared or combined diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for simultaneous assessment of various soil properties. Pedometrics 2005, 12-14 September 2005, Florida.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2001. Un modèle flexible pour prédire des besoins en chaux adaptées aux conditions locales. Colloque l'acidification des sols : origine, approche, enjeux et maitrise AFES, INRA, 4-5 April, Versailles.

Viscarra Rossel RA & McBratney AB. 1999. Comparison of methods for dealing with non-stationary soil pH and organic carbon data. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference of the Working Group on Pedometrics of the IUSS, Sydney, Australia.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 1997. Towards the development of a real-time soil pH sensor. Symposia on Precision Agriculture Research in Australasia, Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture, The University of Sydney.

Other media

Boydell BC, Viscarra Rossel RA, McBratney AB & Whelan BM. 1999. Precision Agriculture: An overview for the Australian fertiliser industry. In J.S. Glendinning (ed.) Australian Soil Fertility Manual. Fertiliser Industry Federation of Australia Inc. CSIRO publishing, Australia.

Viscarra Rossel RA. 1998. Australian wine industry: The potential for precision viticulture. Leading Edge - The Journal of Agricultural Engineering and Precision Agriculture, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.41-43.

McBratney AB, Viscarra Rossel RA & Whelan BM. 1996. Some thoughts on Precision Agriculture in Australia. Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program (ACLEP) Newsletter, Vol. 5, No.3.

Software published on the web

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2006. ParLeS: Software for chemometric analysis of spectroscopic data. http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/agric/acpa/people/rvrossel/soft01.htm [external link]

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. ColoSol: A colour model conversion program for soil colour. http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/agric/acpa/people/rvrossel/soft02.htm [external link]

Viscarra Rossel RA. 2005. PCA: Software for Principal Components Analysis. http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/agric/acpa/people/rvrossel/Software.htm [external link]