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Every species on Earth has a fingerprint - whether or not they have fingers at all.

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Spectral fingerprint: the distinctive pattern of radiation reflected by a surface (or a species) as a function of the wavelength
Spectroscopy: the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelength or frequency of the radiation

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Photo of Forest in False Color from:
Sapes, G., C. Lapadat, A. K. Schweiger, J. Juzwik, R. Montgomery, H. Gholizadeh, P. A. Townsend, J. A. Gamon, and J. Cavender-Bares. 2022. Canopy spectral reflectance detects oak wilt at the landscape scale using phylogenetic discrimination. Remote Sensing of Environment 273:112961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.11...

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J. Antonio Guzmán Q., Jesús N. Pinto-Ledezma, David Frantz, Philip A. Townsend, Jennifer Juzwik, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Mapping oak wilt disease from space using land surface phenology, Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 2023, 113794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.11...

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