TODAY'S DATA-DRIVEN AGRICULTURE DEMANDS ACCESS TO HIGH-RESOLUTION SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DATA STREAMS. SOIL SCIENTISTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND GLOBALLY HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO MEET THIS DEMAND. THIS FACT COORDINATED INNOVATION NETWORK WILL PROVIDE A GLOBAL, OPEN-ACCESS AND OPEN SOURCE, EASY-TO-USE PLATFORM FOR RELIABLY PREDICTING SOIL PROPERTIES FROM INFRARED SPECTRA THAT WILL OFFER LOW-COST, MEANINGFUL, AND ACCURATE DATA STREAMS TO MONITOR SOIL HEALTH AS IT IS IMPACTED BY EFFORTS TO CONSERVE IT AND ITS USE BY AGRICULTURE. DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY IS BECOMING AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL IN SOIL SCIENCE; HOWEVER, SEVERAL TECHNICAL CHALLENGES STILL LIMIT ITS BROADER APPLICATION OUTSIDE OF RESEARCH PROJECTS. THIS PROJECT WILL NETWORK SOIL SPECTROSCOPISTS WITH EXPERTS IN INFORMATICS, DATA SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE CURRENT BOTTLENECKS PREVENTING WIDER AND MORE EFFICIENT USE OF SOIL SPECTROSCOPY. THE NETWORK WILL DEFINE A COMMON VOCABULARY, METADATA REQUIREMENTS, SPECTRAL QUALITY STANDARDS, AND BEST PRACTICE LAB PROCEDURES. THE NETWORK WILL CREATE SOFTWARE TO QUALITY CHECK, HARMONIZE AND STANDARDIZE SPECTRA AND SOIL DATA COLLECTIONS. THE NETWORK WILL DELIVER A WEB-BASED SOFTWARE PLATFORM, THE GLOBAL SOIL SPECTROSCOPY LIBRARY, BACKED BY MULTIPLE SPECTRAL DATABASES AND ROBUST STATISTICAL MODELS, THAT DERIVES SOIL PROPERTIES FROM THE SPECTRAL DATA. DEMONSTRATION, OUTREACH AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES WILL PROMOTE THE USE OF THE GLOBAL SOIL SPECTRAL LIBRARY AND DATA-DRIVEN SCIENCE AS SOLUTIONS TO THE SOIL DATA CRISIS.