Table 1.

Nomenclature related to spectrometer data collection.

In this article	In other articles or manuals	Definition
Plot		Land area where a single genotype is growing; in other studies it could be considered as a replication.
Scan	Data collection, spectrum or spectra collection, scanning	Action oriented to collect the spectrum or spectra by one scan or shoot (informal terminology).
Samples	Sample spectra, samples of scan, scanned samples, scanned data, artifacts, features	Some spectrometers are able to register several samples within the same scan; number of spectral signatures captured per scan.
Integrations per sample	Spectrum average or averaging	Integration of spectra within the same sample.