In the United States, petroleum extraction, refinement, and transportation present countless opportunities for spillage mishaps. A method for rapid field appraisal and mapping of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils for environmental cleanup purposes would be useful. Visible near-infrared (VisNIR, 350-2500 nm) diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) is a rapid, nondestructive, proximal-sensi...

often result in immoderate growth, increased input costs, and potential adverse environmental impacts, esLeaf N and chlorophyll (Chl) concentrations of cotton (Gossypium pecially water quality (Jaynes et al., 2001). Therefore, hirsutum L.) are important indicators of plant N status. Laboratory one of the goals of farm managers is to accurately detect determinations of plant tissue N are time co...

Investigations have shown that visible-near-infrared (VNIR) spectroscopy can accurately determine soil properties under laboratory conditions. In situ assessment of soil properties is of great benefit for several applications, as spectra can be acquired fast and almost continuously. The present study used partial least squares (PLS) regression to establish a relationship between soil reflectanc...

Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) has been identified as one of the major C sinks in the global carbon cycle, of which the exact size and spatial distribution are still difficult to determine quantitatively. Estimation of the amount of SOC present using remote sensing is mostly based on the overall decrease in reflectance in the solar reflective part of the electromagnetic spectrum. However, moisture c...

The detection method of the soil nutrients (organic matter and available N, P, K) were analyzed based on the near infrared spectroscopy technology in order to decision-making for precision fertilization. 54 samples with 7m×7m was collected using DGPS receiver positioning in a soybean field. The soil organic matter, available nitrogen (N), available phosphorus (P), available potassium (K) conten...

T h e PROSPECT leaf optical properties and SAIL canopy reflectance models were coupled and inverted using a set of 96 AVIRIS (Airborne Visible~Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) equivalent spectra gathered in afield experiment on sugar beet plots expressing a large range in leaf area index, chlorophyll concentration, and soil color. In a first attempt, the model accurately reproduced the spectral r...

1) the Malkmus band model based on HITRAN 92 database: HITRAN 96 and HITRAN 99 are now available with more accurate molecular line parameters. Also ATREM employs the multiplication rule to handle transmittance in spectral regions where multiple gas absorption is present. This results in less accurate transmittance calculation in these regions, e.g., at 2.0μm where both H2O and CO2 strongly abso...

This study compared the use of both the MODIS LAI (MOD15A2) product, which provides directly the 8-day LAI at 1km spatial resolution, and the MODIS 8-day surface reflectance product (MOD09A1) in retrieving and estimating the seasonal variation of LAI for irrigated rice in the Mekong delta, Vietnam. The Soil-Leaf-Canopy (SLC) radiative transfer model was employed to invert MOD09A1 reflectance sp...

T o t a l hemispherical shortwave reflectance (albedo) is a major parameter of interest for studies of land surface climatology and global change. Efforts' to estimate albedo from remote sensing data have been constrained by the available instrumentation that typically provide observations of reflected radiance from a single view direction in narrow spectral bands'. However, the capability to o...