ABSTRACT
The theme of this session focuses on new approaches for interpreting data. The 14 papers submitted to this session are reviewed and summarized in this report. From this varied body of work, some concluding remarks are made as they apply to the field of in situ characterization. In a broad sense, interpretation can take various roles. Individual test methods often generate data requiring one or more method of analysis. For each test, results can vary due to mechanical aspects of the equipment and measurement accuracy, testing standards used, actual implementation of the experiment in the field, assumptions for each step in the analysis, data processing and statistical treatment of data and results.
