Measured vs. Modeled: The Importance of Model Evaluation in Closing the Loop Between Laboratory and Remote Sensing Spectral Measurements

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Dec 2002

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #P62B-02

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3600 Mineralogy And Petrology (Replaces, 3672 Planetary Mineralogy And Petrology (5410), 3934 Optical, Infrared, And Raman Spectroscopy, 6200 Planetology: Solar System Objects (New Field), 6297 Instruments And Techniques

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With the vast quantities of spectral data returned from current and future planetary missions in this decade it is tempting to focus chiefly on the analysis of these data, searching out exciting new discoveries. However, the knowledge derived from rigorous laboratory research is critically important to the accurate, quantitative interpretation of remote sensing data and must not be neglected during periods of intense planetary exploration. Some of the laboratory work that provides this knowledge is initiated independently of existing remote sensing data, motivated by obvious gaps in our spectral libraries or our understanding of certain processes or conditions affecting the spectral measurement. Other laboratory studies may arise out of discoveries made in the course of analyzing new remote sensing data and point us in new directions that were not obvious routes of exploration before the discovery was made. Regardless of the inspiration for the laboratory research, it is important that we undertake these studies with the goal of applying them to the quantitative analysis of remote sensing data. Achieving this goal requires rigorous testing of compositional and mixing models using a wide variety and large number of samples. The most important products of these tests are well-defined model uncertainties, not only under laboratory conditions, but also under conditions that simulate remote sensing conditions, e.g., spectral resolution, signal-to-noise, elimination of regions obscured by atmospheric absorption, complex mixtures, etc. This presentation will describe existing models, current research, and future directions for laboratory spectroscopy studies that support remote sensing observations, focusing on the need for quantitative analyses that will assure the greater planetary science community that the results we publish are quantitative and useful, and fully close the loop between the laboratory and remote sensing data.

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