Pedometrics

Training in Infrared spectroscopy and Chemometrics

TRAINING in Infrared spectroscopy and Chemometrics, 1st - 5th March 2010, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium

For the 4th consecutive year, the CRA-W organises a complete training on infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics with the following contents:
- Overview of the theoretical/practical part of the spectroscopic methods most commonly used.
- Introduction to Chemometrics.
- Practical sessions.
- Answer all the questions one can find when working with spectroscopy and chemometrics.

Venue
The training will be hosted by the Quality Department of Agricultural Products of the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W) in Gembloux.
This location is easily accessible by train or car (only 50 kilometres from Brussels).

Contents
Infrared Spectroscopy
-Theory and applications
- Experimental / sample plan
- NIR
- NIR microscopy
- NIR imaging
- Embedded NIR
- Networking
- MIR
- Raman

Chemometrics

Exploratory analysis
Data visualization / Principal Component Analysis (PCA) / Clustering / Outliers / Uncertainty estimation

Quantification and classification / multivariate calibration
-Multiple Linear Regression (MLR)
-Principal Component Regression (PCR)
-Partial Least Squares (PLS)
-Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
-Support Vector Machines (SVM)

For more information: http://cra.wallonie.be/index.php?page=23&id=112

Email: fernandez@cra.wallonie.be