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barron.torrent.redness.LAB: Barron & Torrent (1986) Redness Index in LAB color space

Description

Calculate Redness Index after Barron & Torrent (1986) "Use of the Kubelka—Munk Theory to Study the Influence of Iron Oxides on Soil Colour" using Munsell colors converted to LAB. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.1986.tb00382.x. Accepts vectorized inputs for hue, value and chroma, produces vector output.

Usage

barron.torrent.redness.LAB(hue, value, chroma)

Value

A numeric vector of horizon redness index (higher values = redder).

Arguments

hue

A character vector containing Munsell hues (e.g. "7.5YR")

value

A numeric vector containing Munsell values

chroma

A numeric vector containing Munsell chromas

Author

Andrew G. Brown

References

Barron, V. and Torrent, J. (1986), Use of the Kubelka—Munk theory to study the influence of iron oxides on soil colour. Journal of Soil Science, 37: 499-510. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2389.1986.tb00382.x