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Spectral Library splib06a Sample Description

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TITLE: Burn Area Traverse WRF00-02 DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MIXTURE

SAMPLE_ID: WRF00-02

MIXTURE_TYPE: Intimate

MIXTURE: all components of post-fire surface for a burned Ponderosa Pine forest

FORMULA: Not Available

FORMULA_HTML: Not Available

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Walker Ranch Fire, Boulder, Colorado USA

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Raymond Kokaly

COLLECTION_LATITUDE: Not Available

COLLECTION_LONGITUDE: Not Available

DATUM: # coordinate datum

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: Not a sample

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: Not a sample

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

This is not a spectrum of a collected sample but it is an average of 16 field spectra collected of a severely burned area, specifically of the blackened ash/char coated materials on the soil surface following a wildfire in a ponderosa pine forest. The Walker Ranch Fire (also called the Eldorado Fire at Walker Ranch) occurred on September 15, 2000, in an area west of Boulder, Colorado. The field spectra were collected on September 28, 2000. The fiber optic head of the spectrometer was held a few inches above the surface of the charred soil. The field spectra where collected in a 10cm circle (see the area highlighted in red in the sample photo). The average of the 16 field spectra was computed then corrected to absolute reflectance using a National Institute of Standards spectralon correction. Atmospheric absorptions regions were deleted from the final spectrum (data points near 1.4, and 1.9 microns and greater than 2.45 microns were modified in this way to remove all traces of atmospheric residues in the field spectra).

Photos:

Photo of burned area where the spectrum was measured.

END_SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION.

XRD_ANALYSIS:

None

END_XRD_ANALYSIS.

COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: XRF # XRF, EM(WDS), ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE: None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

None

END_COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION.

MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

None

END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

END_SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION.

SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns

LIB_SPECTRA_HED: where Wave Range Av_Rs_Pwr Comment
LIB_SPECTRA: splib05a r 8996 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s.=
LIB_SPECTRA: splib06a r 26668 g.s.=