OBSERVATION OF SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR SOIL CONTAMINANTS

  • Choe Eun-Young (Advanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMRC), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)) ;
  • Kim Kyoung-Woong (Advanced Environmental Monitoring Research Center (ADEMRC), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)) ;
  • Lee Sung-Soon (Geoscience Information Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM)) ;
  • Chi Kwang-Hoon (Geoscience Information Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM))
  • Published : 2005.10.01

Abstract

Spectral characteristics depending on soil constituents and their proportion in a soil were firstly studied for monitoring of soil contamination using hyperspectral remote sensing. The reflectance spectra of heavy metals in soils were investigated in the VIS-NIR-SWIR regions (400-2500 nm) to observe spectral variation as a function of constituents and concentrations. Commercial kaolinite soils mixed with lead, copper, arsenic, and cadmium were used as synthetic soil samples for spectral measurement. In case of copper, relatively spectrally active regions was observed with some band shift whereas other heavy metals had only simple spectral variations expected to be related to the sorption phase and the amount of metal onto kaolinite. The reflectance spectrum of each metal on kaolinite could be identified in VIS-NIR region.

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