Oiled sand brown GrndIsle

Spectrum Details

Modality

NIR

Category

man-made

Material Type

beach sand and weathered oil

Sample ID

oiled sand at site 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

Spectrum of beach sand saturated with weathered oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill measured on the beach on Grand Isle, Louisiana. 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. Spectrum was used 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