Test Site in Tuz Gölü Salt Lake for Absolute Radiometric Calibration. Radiometric, vicarious calibration test site, with large homogenous regions.
Description:
Lake Tuz is a permanent endorheic lake, which lies in the Tuz gölü basin in Central Anatolia. The site is a salt flat. The evaporates are mainly halite and gypsum, with minor amounts of polyhalite and coelestine. No vegetation in the salt flat. But arable fields and salt-steppes surround the lake. Salt mines and saltwork pools operate in the lake. Tuz Golu PDF 1 Tuz Golu PDF 2
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
