An Analytic BRDF Model of Canopy Radiative Transfer and Its Inversion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 1081-1092

  Liang, Shunlin ^a   Strahler, Alan H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF); biophysical parameters; inversion; leaf canopy; Radiative transfer; sky radiance distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER; INVERSION; LEAF ANGLE DISTRIBUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; LEAF CANOPY; POWELL ALGORITHMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SKY RADIANCE DISTRIBUTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027664548     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.263779     Document Type: Article

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