http://speclab.cr.usgs.gov CONTENTS / INDEX

Asteroids (to be added)

AVIRIS: Airborne Visual and Infra-Red Imaging Spectrometer

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy
• Introduction to Imaging Spectroscopy Results
• Evolution in Imaging Spectroscopy Analysis and Sensor Signal-to-Noise: An Examination of How Far We Have Come
• Geometric Corrections to AVIRIS data

Absorption Processes

• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy
• What is Reflectance Spectroscopy? (OLDER, above has more information)
• Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
• Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration

Calibration

• Surface Reflectance Calibration of Terrestrial Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Tutorial Using AVIRIS
• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy

Cassini mission to Saturn

• Cassini to Saturn and Titan

Color Printing

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/p3 Software to print images on color printers

Costs

• AVIRIS Data acquisition
  • Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy

Cryptobiotic Soils

• Vegetation and Cryptobiotic Soils Mapping in Arid Regions

Cuprite, Nevada

• Papers on Cuprite

Data Acquisition, AVIRIS

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy
• Geometric Corrections to AVIRIS data

Data publication, distribution, and availability policy

Data publication, distribution, and availability policy

Davinci

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/davinci Softeware to manipulate 3-D data

Earth (see also papers and publications)

• Introduction to Imaging Spectroscopy Results
• Evolution in Imaging Spectroscopy Analysis and Sensor Signal-to-Noise: An Examination of How Far We Have Come

Environmental

• Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Map Acidic Mine Waste
• Mapping Acid-Generating Minerals at the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado using Imaging Spectroscopy
• Remote Mineral Mapping Using AVIRIS Data at Summitville, Colorado and the Adjacent San Juan Mountains
• Ray Mine: Mineral Mapping with Imaging Spectroscopy
• Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
• Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration

Facilities

• Spectroscopy Lab Facilities

Galileo mission currently orbiting Jupiter

• Galileo NIMS

Geometric Corrections

• Geometric Corrections to AVIRIS data

How to/information on:

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy

Image Display

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/pw Software to display images and extract spectra from image cubes.

Image Printing

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/p3 Software to print images on color printers

Imaging Spectroscopy

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy
• Introduction to Imaging Spectroscopy Results
• Evolution in Imaging Spectroscopy Analysis and Sensor Signal-to-Noise: An Examination of How Far We Have Come

Jupiter

• Planetary spectra
• Galileo NIMS

Laboratory, USGS Spectroscopy

• About the USGS Spectroscopy Lab
• Spectroscopy Lab Facilities

Leadville, CO

• Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Map Acidic Mine Waste
• Mapping Acid-Generating Minerals at the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado using Imaging Spectroscopy

Libraries, Spectral

• USGS Digital Spectral Library

Lithology

• Mapping the Mineralogy and Lithology of Canyonlands, Utah with Imaging Spectrometer Data and the Multiple Spectral Feature Mapping Algorithm

Mars

• Planetary spectra
• Mars Global Surveyor
  • Mars Global Surveyor TES
  • Mars Global Surveyor Home Page
• Mars: Mineralogical Constraints and Comparison to the Earth
• Detection Limits of Martian Clays

Mercury

• Planetary spectra

Minerals

• USGS Digital Spectral Library
• Spectroscopy of Minerals

Mine Drainage

National Parks and Monuments (Places we are currently studying)

• Arches National Park
  • Mapping the Mineralogy and Lithology of Canyonlands, Utah with Imaging Spectrometer Data and the Multiple Spectral Feature Mapping Algorithm
  • Vegetation and Cryptobiotic Soils Mapping in Arid Regions
• Canyonlands National Park
  • Mapping the Mineralogy and Lithology of Canyonlands, Utah with Imaging Spectrometer Data and the Multiple Spectral Feature Mapping Algorithm
• Dinosaur National Monument
• Joshua tree National Park
• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
• Petrified Forest National Park
• Yellowstone National Park
  • Mapping the Biology and Mineralogy of Yellowstone National Park Using Imaging Spectroscopy
• Rocky Mountain National Park

Neptune

• (to be added)

NIMS: Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, Galileo Mission

• Galileo NIMS

P3 (Software)

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/p3 Software to print images on color printers at any magnification or map scale.

Papers and Publications

• Planetary
  • Mars: Mineralogical Constraints and Comparison to the Earth
  • Detection Limits of Martian Clays
• Terrestrial
  • Terrestrial studies
    Imaging Spectroscopy mapping on the Earth.
  • Utah EPA-USGS abandoned mine lands project.
  • Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy
  • USGS Digital Spectral Library
  • Evolution in Imaging Spectroscopy Analysis and Sensor Signal-to-Noise: An Examination of How Far We Have Come
  • Remote Mineral Mapping Using AVIRIS Data at Summitville, Colorado and the Adjacent San Juan Mountains
  • Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Map Acidic Mine Waste
  • Mapping Acid-Generating Minerals at the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado using Imaging Spectroscopy
  • Ray Mine: Mineral Mapping with Imaging Spectroscopy
  • Initial Vegetation Species and Senescence/Stress Indicator Mapping in the San Luis Valley, Colorado Using Imaging Spectrometer Data
  • Mapping the Mineralogy and Lithology of Canyonlands, Utah with Imaging Spectrometer Data and the Multiple Spectral Feature Mapping Algorithm
• Laboratory Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy
  • Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
  • Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration

Planets - See also individual Planets

• Cassini to Saturn and Titan
• Mars Global Surveyor TES
• Mars Surveyor Home Page
• Planetary spectra
• Planetary Papers, Abstracts and Press Releases
• Spacecraft Missions

Pluto

• (to be added)

Policies

Data publication, distribution, and availability policy

Press Releases

• Planetary
  • Mars Mystery: Whe re's the Clay?
• Terrestrial
  • A NASA Airborne Sensor Aids in Superfund Site Clean-up at Leadville, Colorado

Publications: see Papers and Publications above

Pw

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/pw Image Cube software

Radiative Transfer

• Specpr, Radtran software for spectral analysis
• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy

Reflectance

• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy
• What is Reflectance Spectroscopy? (OLDER, above has more information)
• USGS Digital Spectral Library
• Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
• Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration

Registration of Imaging Spectroscopy Data

• Geometric Corrections to AVIRIS data

Satellites, Planetary

• Planetary spectra
• Cassini to Saturn and Titan

Saturn

• Planetary spectra
• Cassini to Saturn and Titan

Scattering

• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy
• What is Reflectance Spectroscopy? (OLDER, above has more information)

Signal-to-Noise

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy

Software

• Software (spectroscopy, imaging, and others)
• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/p3 Software to print images on color printers
• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/davinci Softeware to manipulate 3-D data
• Specpr, Radtran software for spectral analysis
• Tetracorder (Tricorder) information, papers, and source code.
• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/spview DOS PC spectral viewer

Spacecraft

• Spacecraft Missions
• Cassini to Saturn and Titan
• Mars Global Surveyor
  • Mars Global Surveyor TES
  • Mars Global Surveyor Home Page

Specpr

• Specpr, Radtran software for spectral analysis

Spectra

• USGS Digital Spectral Library
• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy
• What is Reflectance Spectroscopy? (OLDER, above has more information)
• Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
• Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration

Spectra, Planetary

• Planetary spectra

Spectral Libraries

• USGS Digital Spectral Library

Spectrometers

• About the USGS Spectroscopy Lab

Spectroscopy

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy
• USGS Digital Spectral Library
• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy
• What is Reflectance Spectroscopy? (OLDER, above has more information)
• Planetary spectra
• Spectroscopy papers: Laboratory Studies, Theory and Methodology
  • Causes of Spurious Features in Spectral Reflectance Data
  • The U. S. Geological Survey, Digital Spectral Library: Version 1: 0.2 to 3.0 microns,
  • Mapping Minerals, Amorphous Materials, Environmental Materials, Vegetation, Water, Ice and Snow, and Other Materials: The USGS Tricorder Algorithm.
  • Mapping with Imaging Spectrometer Data Using the Complete Band Shape Least-Squares Algorithm Simultaneously Fit to Multiple Spectral Features from Multiple Materials,
  • Material Absorption Band Depth Mapping of Imaging Spectrometer Data Using a Complete Band Shape Least-Squares Fit with Library Reference Spectra,
  • Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
  • Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration

Spectroscopy, Imaging: see Imaging Spectroscopy

Spview

• ftp://ftpext.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cr/co/denver/speclab/pub/spview DOS PC spectral viewer

Summitville, CO

• Remote Mineral Mapping Using AVIRIS Data at Summitville, Colorado and the Adjacent San Juan Mountains

Tetracorder (Tricorder)

• Tetracorder information, papers, and source code.

Training

• Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy

Uranus

• (to be added)

VIMS - Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, Cassini mission to Saturn

• Cassini VIMS

Vegetation

• Investigating a physical basis for spectroscopic estimates of leaf nitrogen concentration
• Spectroscopic Determination of Leaf Biochemistry
• USGS Digital Spectral Library
• Initial Vegetation Species and Senescence/Stress Indicator Mapping in the San Luis Valley, Colorado Using Imaging Spectrometer Data
• Spectroscopy and Principles of Spectroscopy (contains vegetation spectra)
• Mapping the Biology and Mineralogy of Yellowstone National Park Using Imaging Spectroscopy

Venus

• (to be added)

Verification

• Imaging Spectroscopy
  • Verification of Remotely Sensed Data
  • Tutorial on Imaging Spectroscopy
  • Terrestrial Material Maps derived from imaging spectroscopy
  • Introduction to Imaging Spectroscopy Results
  • Evolution in Imaging Spectroscopy Analysis and Sensor Signal-to-Noise: An Examination of How Far We Have Come
  • Ground-Truthing AVIRIS Mineral Mapping at Cuprite, Nevada
  • Initial Vegetation Species and Senescence/Stress Indicator Mapping in the San Luis Valley, Colorado Using Imaging Spectrometer Data
  • Geometric Corrections to AVIRIS data
• Spectral Library wavelength precision

JPL AVIRIS Data Facility

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

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