USGS Spectroscopy Lab

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov/national.parks/national.parks.html

• Surficial mineralogy,
• Vegetation studies,

The current study and status:

• AVIRIS data acquired spring 1994
• Coverage:
  • area over Ajo Mountains
  • Entire Park border with Mexico
• AVIRIS data have been calibrated to surface reflectance (Sept. 1998).
• Initial Tricorder mapping has been completed (Sept, 1998),
• Initial field checking TBD.
• ER-2 high altitude IR photography acquired, and digital scanning (3.7-meter/pixel spatial resolution) for all AVIRIS flight lines still to be done. Full resolution images will be ~45 MBytes each. (See examples under our Arches N.P. page.)

Project/Task Leader: Roger N. Clark rclark@speclab.cr.usgs.gov

Project team:

• Gregg A. Swayze (Initial surficial mineralogy lead)
• Raymond F. Kokaly (Vegetation studies lead)
• Roger N. Clark
• Eric Livo

National Park Service: Visit the Parks Home Page

Organ Pipe Cactus NM Home Page

Phone, email and regular mail addresses of spectroscopy lab personnel for further information.

U.S. Geological Survey, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior

This page URL= http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov/national.parks/Organ.Pipe/organ.pipe.html
This page is maintained by: Dr. Roger N. Clark rclark@speclab.cr.usgs.gov
Last modified January 8, 2000.