Reflectance modeling for real snow structures using a beam tracing model

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3482-3496

  Bänninger, Dominik ^a   Bourgeois, Claude Saskia ^b   Matzl, Margret ^c   Schneebeli, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Modeling; Radiative transfer; Reflectance; Snow

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; BEAM-TRACING MODELS; HEXAGONAL PARTICLES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REFLECTANCE MODEL; REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURE IMAGE;

LIGHT SOURCES; MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SNOW;

EID: 44649096987     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8053482     Document Type: Article

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