Oil BlackPoolonBeach DWO-06b

Spectrum Details

Modality

NIR

Category

man-made

Material Type

weathered oil

Sample ID

DWO-06b

Collection Locality

Grand Isle, Louisiana

Spectral Purity

1a2_3_4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns

Sample Description

Sample of weathered oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill collected from the beach on Grand Isle on June 9, 2010. Spectrum measured in the field on June 9, 2010. The reflectance spectrum has strong absorption features centered near 1.72 and 2.30 microns arising from C-H bonds in weathered oil. This spectrum, labeled as "Oil-Strong", was published and described in: Kokaly, R.F., Couvillion, B.R., Holloway, J.M., Roberts, D.A., Ustin, S.L., Peterson, S.H., Khanna, S., and Piazza, S.C., 2013, Spectroscopic remote sensing of the distribution and persistence of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay marshes, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 129, Pages 210-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.10.028 IMAGE_OF_SAMPLE:

X Units

cm⁻¹

Y Units

Absorbance

Data Points

2,126