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Clark et. al. 2003 USGS Open File Report 03-395
Spectral Library splib05a Sample Description

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TITLE: Grass-Fescue-Wheatg YNP-FW-2 DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: Plant

SAMPLE_ID: YNP-FW-2

PLANT_TYPE: Grass

PLANT: Idaho fescue and bearded wheatgrass.

LATIN_NAME: Festuca idahoensis and Agropyron caninum.

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Specimen ridge area (south side of the Lamar Valley) Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

ORIGINAL_DONOR:

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

Averaged spectral reflectance for a grassland area, dominated by Idaho fescue and bearded wheatgrass, located on Specimen ridge (south side of the Lamar Valley) of Yellowstone National Park. This area was described by Despain (1990) as the dry phase of the Idaho fescue/bearded wheatgrass habitat. This average spectrum was computed from 56 pixels of radiative-transfer-ground-calibrated AVIRIS data.  AVIRIS data were collected on August 6, 1996, at approximately 11:10 am Local Time.  AVIRIS channels 1-4, 32-33, 43, 59-62, 81-84, 95-97, 106-113, 154-167, 173-175, and 222-224 were deleted due to residual atmospheric effects, poor instrument response, and redundancy where detectors overlap. Sample referenced in Kokaly et al. (2002).

Despain, D.G. (1990), Yellowstone vegetation: Consequences of environment and history in a natural setting.  Santa Barbara: Roberts Rinehart Publishers.

Kokaly et al. (2002), "Remote Sensing of environment 5792 (2002)1-20"

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COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: none

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

END_COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION.

TRACE_ELEMENT_ANALYSIS:

TRACE_ELEMENT_DISCUSSION:

END_TRACE_ELEMENT_DISCUSSION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

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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 11140 0.3-2.5µm 200


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