Iterative atmospheric correction scheme and the polarization color of alpine snow

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 789-804

  Ottaviani, Matteo ^a,b   Cairns, Brian ^a   Ferrare, Rich ^c   Rogers, Raymond ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarization; Polarized BRDF; Remote sensing; Snow; Tuolumne intrusive suite

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; ALPINE SNOW; ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION SCHEMES; ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING; COLOR VARIATIONS; DATA SETS; EARTH'S SURFACE; FRESNEL REFLECTANCE; GAUSS-NEWTON; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; GODDARD INSTITUTE OF SPACE STUDIES; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDARS; HIGH WATER CONTENT; ICE CRYSTALS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; JACOBIANS; LAND SURFACE; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; POLARIZED BRDF; POLARIZED REFLECTANCES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; RESEARCH SCANNING POLARIMETERS; RUGGED TOPOGRAPHY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; TOTAL REFLECTANCE; TUOLUMNE INTRUSIVE SUITE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SNOW;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ICE CRYSTAL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PIXEL; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SNOW;

EID: 84859869093     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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