DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: PLANT
SAMPLE_ID: hyacinth at DWO-3-DEL-2
PLANT_TYPE: aquatic plant
PLANT: common water hyacinth
LATIN_NAME: Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Bird's Foot delta of the Mississippi river, Louisiana
COLLECTION_LATITUDE: 29.09707 deg. N
COLLECTION_LONGITUDE: 89.07353 deg. W
DATUM: NAD83
ORIGINAL_DONOR: Raymond F. Kokaly, USGS
SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:
This spectrum is the average reflectance of 14 field measurements (using an artificial light source) of green leaves of hyacinth. The reflectance measurements were made on August 14, 2010, using an ASD Field Spectrometer 3 (FS3) in reflectance mode, relative to a Spectralon reference panel. The contact probe attachement (an artificial light source with a restricted, 1 cm diameter, field of view) was used to measure the reflectance spectra of stacks of hyacinth leaves. An average spectrum was computed from the recorded measurements. The average spectrum was converted to absolute reflectance by multiplying by the reflectance spectrum of the Spectralon reference panel. The first 50 channels(0.35 - 0.40 microns) in the spectral measurement show relatively high levels of noise.
Project Background
This site was measured as part of joint work between the USGS Denver Spectroscopy Laboratory and the
Coastal Restoration Assessment Branch of the USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Baton Rouge.
This spectrum was used in the following publication:
Kokaly, R.F., Couvillion, B.R., Holloway, J.M., Roberts, D.A., Ustin, S.L., Peterson, S.H., Khanna, S., and Piazza, S.C., 2013,
Spectroscopic remote sensing of the distribution and persistence of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay marshes,
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 129, Pages 210-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.028
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COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None
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TRACE_ELEMENT_ANALYSIS:
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SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:
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SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1a2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns