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Paved · emissivity — Grey Cement, Weatheredpaved evidence record

emis0.91
emissivitypavedlondonsiteKotthaus 2014

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Names follow the SUEWS YAML specification; click one for its definition in the configuration reference.

emis0.91

Provenance evidence

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Measured · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-23. Agent assessment is evidence preparation, not human verification.

Derivation of an urban materials spectral library through emittance and reflectance spectroscopyParameter source

Where: Appendix C, Table C.1, specimen C003, p. 210-211

Lists C003 as grey cement, weathered with measured emissivity 0.91; the sample collection is from London urban impervious materials.

Assessment findings

Namesupported
Grey cement, weathered matches the material description for specimen C003 in Table C.1.
Targetsupported
Specimen C003 is an impervious cement/concrete surface material, so its emissivity belongs under land_cover.paved.
Valuessupported
Table C.1 reports emissivity 0.91 for specimen C003, exactly matching the stored value.
Sourcesupported
Kotthaus et al. directly report the measured emissivity and specimen metadata for C003, so kotthaus2014 is the parameter source.
Placesupported
The source and SLUM collection identify C003 as a London urban-material specimen; place london replaces the unsupported generic place.
issue #241
Representativenesssupported
The value is one measured specimen, so site is the supported scope; the paper does not establish it as a generic material constant.
issue #241
Methodsupported
The emissivity is a specimen measurement tabulated by Kotthaus et al., so measured is the supported method.
Identitysupported
The description and emissivity 0.91 identify source specimen C003 unambiguously within Table C.1 and distinguish it from the separate C005 specimen, whose emissivity is 0.95.
issue #244

Scientific note

The stored emissivity is unchanged because it exactly matches specimen C003. The correction is scope; a measurement of one London specimen is London/site evidence, not a place-independent generic constant.

Model-ready fragment

Paste under land_cover.paved in a SUEWS YAML configuration; every value carries its citation.

emis:
  value: 0.91
  ref:
    ID: kotthaus2014
    DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.05.005
    desc: london, site

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Record metadata

Placelondon
Scopesite
Targetland_cover.paved · docs
Origin“Generic” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 40241251
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