Mapping Surface Quartz Content in Sand Dunes Covered by Biological Soil Crusts Using Airborne Hyperspectral Images in the Longwave Infrared Region
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. The Study Area
2.2. Airborne Data
2.3. Atmospheric-Feature Reduction and Surface-Feature Enhancement
2.4. Laboratory and Ground Measurements
2.5. Quartz Classification
3. Results
3.1. Atmospheric Reduction
3.2. Validation of the Atmospheric Feature Reduction Procedure
3.3. Quartz Content
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sample | Quartz | Carbonates (Calcite, Dolomite) | Silicates (Albite, Anorthite) | Clay (Illite, Kaolinite) |
---|---|---|---|---|
S84 | 90 | 0.5 | 9.5 | - |
S108 | 91 | 3 | 6 | - |
S76 | 92 | trace | 8 | - |
S64 | 91.5 | 0.5 | 8 | - |
DF-N03 | 80 | 8 | 12 | trace |
DF-N16 | 63 | 19.5 | 10.5 | 7 |
DF-N13 | 72 | 15 | 11 | 2 |
DF-S14 | 84 | 2 | 14 | - |
DF-I16 | 74 | 9 | 15 | 2 |
DF-P04 | 26 | 51 | 10 | 13 |
DNSO | 1.0 | 0.88 | 0.87 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 0.79 |
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No. of pixels | 0 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 77 | 199 | 436 | 926 | 2058 |
Sand Sample 1 before DNSO | Sand Sample 1 after DNSO | Sand Sample 2 before DNSO | Sand Sample 2 after DNSO | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Angle | 0.049 | 0.031 | 0.039 | 0.020 |
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Weksler, S.; Rozenstein, O.; Ben-Dor, E. Mapping Surface Quartz Content in Sand Dunes Covered by Biological Soil Crusts Using Airborne Hyperspectral Images in the Longwave Infrared Region. Minerals 2018, 8, 318. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8080318
Weksler S, Rozenstein O, Ben-Dor E. Mapping Surface Quartz Content in Sand Dunes Covered by Biological Soil Crusts Using Airborne Hyperspectral Images in the Longwave Infrared Region. Minerals. 2018; 8(8):318. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8080318
Chicago/Turabian StyleWeksler, Shahar, Offer Rozenstein, and Eyal Ben-Dor. 2018. "Mapping Surface Quartz Content in Sand Dunes Covered by Biological Soil Crusts Using Airborne Hyperspectral Images in the Longwave Infrared Region" Minerals 8, no. 8: 318. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8080318