Mapping iron oxides and the color of Australian soil using visible-near-infrared reflectance spectra

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Viscarra Rossel, R A ^a   Bui, E N ^a   De Caritat, P ^b   McKenzie, N J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GOETHITE; HEMATITE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRON OXIDE; MAPPING METHOD; MINERALOGY; NEAR INFRARED; PH; REDOX POTENTIAL; SOIL COLOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78650576171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JF001645     Document Type: Article

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