Two Models for Rapidly Calculating Bidirectional Reflectance of Complex Vegetation Scenes: Photon Spread (PS) Model and Statistical Photon Spread (SPS) Model

Remote Sensing Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 157-207

  Thompson, Richard L ^a,b   Goel, Narendra S ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional reflectance; Monte carlo method; Photon spreading; Vegetation canopies

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; PHOTON SPREADING; VEGETATION CANOPIES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031649247     PISSN: 02757257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02757259809532351     Document Type: Article

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