continuum_removal: Continuum removal
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Operates a continuum removal on a vector.

1	continuum_removal(x, wl=as.numeric(names(x)), upper=TRUE)

`x`	a numeric vector
`wl`	the wavelengths of the spectra
`upper`	if TRUE, removes the upper convex hull from the spectra, if FALSE, takes the lower convex hull

This operation is commonly done to normalize reflectance spectra and allow comparison of individual absorption features from a common baseline. The removal is based on the upper convex hull of the spectra.

This function is working on vectors. It may applied on matrix or data.frames using the apply function, or on Spectra* objects using the apply_spectra function.

A numeric vector with its continuum removed.

Pierre Roudier pierre.roudier@gmail.com, based on code from Raphael Viscarra-Rossel.

Clark, R.N., and Roush, T.L. 1984. Reflectance spectroscopy: Quantitative analysis techniques for remote sensing applications. Journal of Geophysical Research 89, 6329–6340.

baseline, snv, rnv

# Loading example data
data(australia)
spectra(australia) <- sr_no ~ ... ~ 350:2500

s <- apply_spectra(australia, continuum_removal)
plot(s)

s <- apply_spectra(australia, continuum_removal, upper = FALSE)
plot(s)