Radiative transfer solution using initial values in a scattering and absorbing atmosphere with surface reflection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1889-1892

  Rosenkranz, Philip W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Scattering

Indexed keywords

RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0036699011     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802518     Document Type: Article

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