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

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TITLE: Lodgepole-Pine YNP-LP0-MOD DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: Plant

SAMPLE_ID: YNP-LP0-MOD

PLANT_TYPE: Tree

PLANT: Lodgepole Pine

LATIN_NAME: Pinus contorta

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Southeast of Gardner River and Bunsen Peak in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

ORIGINAL_DONOR:

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

Averaged spectral reflectance for a regrowing forest of lodgepole pine located southeast of Gardner River and Bunsen Peak in Yellowstone National Park. This area was burned in 1988.  The pixels used to compute the average are located west of those used to compute the average spectrum for sample YNP-LP0-VIG. Lodgepole regrowing is occurring in grasses and forbs and the young trees are under 1.5 meters height.  This forest of lodgepole pine was classified as growth stage LP0 by Despain (1990).  LP0 forests are 0-45 years old and usually consist of recently burned forests where lodgepole pine has recolonized the site but not produced a closed canopy.  This average spectrum was computed from 371 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 11645 0.2-3.0µm 200


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