Raytran: A Monte Carlo ray-tracing model to compute light scattering in three-dimensional heterogeneous media

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 493-505

  Govaerts, Yves M ^a   Verstraete, Michel M ^a  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODELING; MONTE CARLO RAY TRACING MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032022862     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.662732     Document Type: Article

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