Chemometric study on the forensic discrimination of soil types using their infrared spectral characteristics |
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Authors: | Baron Mark Gonzalez-Rodriguez Jose Croxton Ruth Gonzalez Rafael Jimenez-Perez Rebeca |
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Affiliation: | School of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, United Kingdom. |
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Abstract: | Soil has been utilized in criminal investigations for some time because of its prevalence and transferability. It is usually the physical characteristics that are studied; however, the research carried out here aims to make use of the chemical profile of soil samples. The research we are presenting in this work used sieved (2 mm) soil samples taken from the top soil layer (about 10 cm) that were then analyzed using mid-infrared spectroscopy. The spectra obtained were pretreated and then input into two chemometric classification tools: nonlinear iterative partial least squares followed by linear discriminant analysis (NIPALS-LDA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). The models produced show that it is possible to discriminate between soil samples from different land use types and both approaches are comparable in performance. NIPALS-LDA performs much better than PLS-DA in classifying samples to location. |
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