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- Page 7 and 8: ABSTRACT Desert areas cover approxi
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- Page 21 and 22: I. INTRODUCTION A study published b
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- Page 25 and 26: sensitive a given sensor is to diff
- Page 27 and 28: Figure 3. From Green et al. (1998),
- Page 29 and 30: analyzing imagery spectra, it is mo
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the Mazourka Canyon OHV park betwee
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wavelengths being analyzed to obtai
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2. Field Spectroscopy An Analytical
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A spectral library was then built a
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after atmospherically correcting th
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where: is the mean corrected and no
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also be seen in Figure 23. The leve
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Figure 24. This figure is a compari
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Figure 25. This figure shows ASD co
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Looking at Figure 25 it is apparent
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A. IMAGERY DERIVED ENDMEMBERS The i
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Figure 28. The above shows some of
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spectrometer, reflectance values we
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such an inference can be made (Ben-
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While this is lower than the hoped
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While the lower value would initial
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Figure 33. This figure shows the ad
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Inset C of Figure 35 is the same da
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However, the presences of BSCs are
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A B C Figure 37. Inset A shows the
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A B C Figure 38. Inset A shows a co
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differences in the studies by other
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small concentrations making them un
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area making it possible to tell wha
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Clark, R. N., Swayze, G. A., Livo,
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Kruse, F. A., Boardman, J. W., and
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Sharp, R. P., and Glazner, A. F., (
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INITIAL DISTRIBUTION LIST 1. Defens