This blog tells the story of Fjord (NOT Rudolph!!) - a little reindeer going to Svalbard with 3 scientists to study glaciers. The team will be in Ny Ålesund for three weeks in July and August. To find out where Svalbard is, what research the scientists are doing, how Arctic fieldwork is conducted, and to ask Fjord and the scientists questions, just have a poke around the site!

July 30, 2010

Rainy Day = Data Day

Today started out a little wet, so the FieldSpec had to stay inside. So, Fjord and Allen got to work on a bit of much-needed data processing. The main conclusion was that we need more samples to be more sure of any conclusions drawn about different reflectance of snow surfaces! This is not surprising. And good to know, seeing as we have 10 days left here...

On the up side, here's a pretty graph of some of the data so far. Each line is the average reflectance (without error bars) of different surface types. Going from top to bottom, they are Snow, White Ice, Semi-Saturated Ice, Slush, and Saturated Ice. Things are looking promising!

Percent reflectance on vertical axis, Wavelength minus 350nm on vertical axis


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