Transfer of near infrared spectrometric models for silage crude protein detection between different instruments

This study was undertaken to distinguish different collected spectra from near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) for silages using different configurations and types of NIRS, and how well the different techniques for transferring NIRS calibrations perform for silage crude protein detection. In the study, 2 Fourier transform instruments and 1 scanning grating instrument were involved. Five correction and transfer methods were tested and evaluated: slope/bias, local centering, orthogonal signal correction, direct standardization, and piecewise direct standardization. We concluded that the spectra obtained with 3 instruments were different and not solely due to the differences in offset. All of the methods for calibration transferring between 2 Fourier transform instruments and 1 Fourier transform instrument versus 1 scanning grating instrument could improve the predictions, but not all of the results could be accepted. The slope/bias, orthogonal signal correction, and local centering techniques were successful for calibration transferring of 2 Fourier transform instruments, considering their good performance. The best result was given for orthogonal signal correction ahead of the other 4 techniques for transferring calibrations between instruments of Fourier transform and scanning grating, and it was evaluated as moderately useful.