Remote Compositional Analysis

Part I. Theory of Remote Compositional Analysis Techniques and Laboratory Measurements: 1. Electronic spectra of minerals in the visible and near-infrared regions; 2. Theory of reflectance and emittance spectroscopy of geologic materials in the visible and infrared regions; 3. Mid-IR (thermal) emission and reflectance spectroscopy: laboratory spectra of geologic materials; 4. Visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy: laboratory spectra of geologic materials; 5. Visible and infrared spectroscopy of ices, volatiles and organics; 6. Raman spectroscopy: theory and laboratory spectra of geologic materials; 7. Moessbauer spectroscopy: theory and laboratory spectra of geologic materials; 8. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: theory and laboratory spectra of geologic materials; 9. Fundamentals of neutron, X-ray and gamma ray spectroscopy; 10. Radar remote sensing: theory and applications; Part II. Terrestrial Field and Airborne Applications: 11. Visible and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy: field and airborne measurements; 12. Raman spectroscopy: field measurements; Part III. Analysis Methods: 13. Effects of environmental conditions on spectral measurements; 14. Hyper- and multispectral VNIR imaging analysis; 15. Thermal infrared spectral modeling; 16. Geochemical interpretations using multiple remote datasets; Part IV. Applications to Planetary Surfaces: 17. Spectral analyses of Mercury; 18. Compositional analysis of the Moon from the visible and near-infrared; 19. Spectral analyses of asteroids; 20. VIS-NIR spectral analyses of asteroids and comets from Dawn and Rosetta; 21. Spectral analyses of Saturn's moons using Cassini-VIMS; 22. Spectroscopy of Pluto and its satellites; 23. VSWIR spectral analyses of Mars from orbit using CRISM and OMEGA; 24. Thermal infrared spectral analyses of Mars from orbit using TES and THEMIS; 25. Rover-based thermal infrared remote sensing of Mars using the mini-TES instrument; 26. Compositional and mineralogic analyses of Mars using multispectral imaging on the Mars Exploration Rover, Phoenix, and Mars Science Laboratory Missions; 27. Iron mineralogy, oxidation state, and alteration on Mars from Moessbauer spectroscopy at Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum; 28. Elemental analyses of Mars using APXS; 29. Elemental analyses of Mars with LIBS by ChemCam and SuperCam; 30. X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutron spectroscopy: planetary missions; 31. Radar remote sensing of planetary bodies.