Spectral Reflectance Characteristics of the Soils on Basaltic Terrain of Central Indian Plateau
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Spectral Reflectance Characteristics of the Soils on Basaltic Terrain of Central Indian Plateau G. K. Khadse
Received: 13 March 2009 / Accepted: 21 November 2011 / Published online: 29 December 2011 # Indian Society of Remote Sensing 2011
Abstract In-situ spectral reflectance characteristics of soils were studied under field conditions with Multiband Ground Truth Radiometer covering 0.45–0.52, 0.52–0.59, 0.62–0.68, and 0.77–0.86 μm spectral bands. Twenty-two surface soil samples were studied in laboratory for their spectral reflectance characteristics using ISCO Model S.R. Spectroradiometer in visible wavelength (450–725 nm), with 25 nm bandwidth, and in infrared wavelength (750–1550 nm), with 50 nm bandwidth. The Bidirectional reflectance factor representative of spectral reflectance varied from 3.78 to 11.3 μm in band 1, 6.09 to 15.41 μm in band 2, 8.05 to 19.41 μm in band 3, and 12.18 to 31.2 μm in band 4. In-situ spectral reflectance in general increases with the wavelength from visible to infrared bands for all the soils. Black soils have relatively lower reflectance as compared to red soils, which is attributed to the variation in the physicochemical properties of soils. Spectral reflectance, under laboratory conditions, for all the soils
increases with wavelength from visible to infrared region except at 950 nm and 1200 nm, where reflectance decreased in all soils, due to weaker water absorption bands and also at 1350 nm, due to strong water absorption at this band. The spectral reflectance of red soils were higher, in-situ as well as under laboratory conditions, as compared to black soils, which is attributed to variation in soil colour, organic matter and clay content of soils. It is observed that the spectral reflectance decrease due to moisture content in soils in all the spectral bands because of darker appearance of soils at moist conditions. Laboratory reflectance measurements serve to define the extent to which intrinsic spectral information is available from soils as a consequence of their composition. Keywords Spectral reflectance . Spectroradiometer . Bandwidth . Bidirectional reflectance factor
Introduction Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12524-011-0187-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. G. K. Khadse (*) Scientist, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, CSIR, Nagpur 440020, India e-mail: [email protected] G.. K.. Khadse e-mail: [email protected]
A spectral characteristic of earth surface material is important for understanding and modeling the exchange of radiant energy between biosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere (Govardhan 1991). Soil reflectance is a cumulative property, which derives from inherent spectral behavior of the heterogeneous combination of minerals, organic and fluid matter that comprises mineral soils (Stoner and Baumgardner 1981). Numerous studies have been described the
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relative contributions of soil parameters such as organic matter,
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