The kubelka-munk diffuse reflectance formula revisited

Applied Spectroscopy Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-165

  Myrick, Michael L ^a   Simcock, Michael N ^b   Baranowski, Megan ^a   Brooke, Heather ^c   Morgan, Stephen L ^a   McCutcheon, Jessica N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Ometric Corporation   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse reflectance; Kubelka Munk; scattering

Indexed keywords

APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; DIFFUSE REFLECTION; EXACT RESULTS; H FUNCTION; INCIDENT LIGHT; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; ISOTROPIC SCATTERING; KUBELKA-MUNK; ONLINE EDITIONS; PATH LENGTH; SINGLE ANGLES; THREE DIMENSIONS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; REFLECTION; SCATTERING;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79951892451     PISSN: 05704928     EISSN: 1520569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/05704928.2010.537004     Document Type: Article

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