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Measuring the Color of Growing Turf with a Reflectance Spectrophotometer 1
Author(s) -
Birth Gerald S.,
McVey George R.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1968.00021962006000060016x
Subject(s) - reflectivity , optics , measure (data warehouse) , wavelength , environmental science , remote sensing , physics , geography , database , computer science
A single−beam spectrophotometer was used to measure the spectral reflectance properties of growing turf. From the data a two−wavelength reflectance ratio R745/R675 was developed for an objective index of turf color. This ratio changed from 3.0 for light green turf color to 6.5 for dark green turf color. (visual rating of 4 to 10, respectively). A two−filter instrument (Ratiospect) was used to measure this index on eight samples of turf of three species. A correlation of 0.984 was obtained between the Ratiospect readings and a visual score of turf color.