Open-File Report 2014–1081
SummaryThis evaluation was conducted to assess the potential for using both traditional remote sensing, such as aerial imagery, and emerging remote sensing technology, such as hyperspectral imaging, as tools for postclosure monitoring of selected hazardous waste sites. Sixteen deleted Superfund (SF) National Priorities List (NPL) sites in Pennsylvania were imaged with a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Airborne Real-Time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance (ARCHER) sensor between 2009 and 2012. Deleted sites are those sites that have been remediated and removed from the NPL. The imagery was processed to radiance and atmospherically corrected to relative reflectance with standard software routines using the Environment for Visualizing Imagery (ENVI, ITT–VIS, Boulder, Colorado) software. Standard routines for anomaly detection, endmember collection, vegetation stress, and spectral analysis were applied. |
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Slonecker, E.T., and Fisher, G.B., 2014, An evaluation of remote sensing technologies for the detection of fugitive contamination at selected Superfund hazardous waste sites in Pennsylvania: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014–1081, 23 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141081/.
ISSN 2331-1258 (online)
Executive Summary
Introduction
Background
Remote Sensing of Hazardous Waste
Methodology
Results of Analysis
Summary and Conclusions
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