Summary of the 2014 IDRC software shoot-out

The Software Shoot-Out has been a staple of the International Diffuse Reflectance Conference (IDRC), a biennial meeting taking place in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a competition amongst participants of the conference that aims to acknowledge and reward the person who develops the best model(s) and obtains the lowest prediction error for a particular diffuse reflectance dataset. Every IDRC, a new challenge is proposed. The conference’s website (http:// www.idrc-chambersburg.org) provides