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Kokaly, R.F., Clark, R.N., Swayze, G.A., Livo, K.E., Hoefen, T.M., Pearson, N.C., Wise, R.A., Benzel, W.M., Lowers, H.A., Driscoll, R.L., and Klein, A.J., 2017, USGS Spectral Library Version 7: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1035, 61 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1035
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TITLE: Burn Area Traverse WRF00-01 DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MIXTURE

SAMPLE_ID: WRF00-01

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 27 field spectra collected of a severely burned area (including the white ash and blackened ash/char material, and exposed soil minerals) 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 approximately 3 feet above the surface of the charred soil. Each of the 27 recorded spectra were 6 second averages of 60 individual spectra measured by the field spectrometer while the user was walking slowly around the burned area. During the measurement, the area covered was roughly a 20 meter by 20 meter area. The average of the 27 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, 1.9, and 2.05 microns and greater than 2.45 microns were modified in this way to remove all traces of atmospheric residues in the field spectra).

Spectrum published in:
Kokaly, R.F., Rockwell, B.W., Haire, S.L., and King, T.V.V., 2007, Characterization of post-fire surface cover, soils, and burn severity at the Cerro Grande Fire, New Mexico, using hyperspectral and multispectral remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 106, Issue 3, Pages 305-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2006.08.006

Photos:

Photo of burned area where the spectrum traverse was made.

END_SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION.

XRD_ANALYSIS:

None

END_XRD_ANALYSIS.

COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: XRF # XRF, EPMA, ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE: None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

None

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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