Simulation of satellite, airborne and terrestrial LiDAR with DART (I): Waveform simulation with quasi-Monte Carlo ray tracing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 184, Issue , 2016, Pages 418-435

  Gastellu Etchegorry, Jean Philippe ^a   Yin, Tiangang ^a   Lauret, Nicolas ^a   Grau, Eloi ^a   Rubio, Jeremy ^a,b   Cook, Bruce D ^b   Morton, Douglas C ^b   Sun, Guoqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Box method; DART; LiDAR; LVIS; Monte Carlo ray tracing; Multiple scattering; Radiative transfer model; Ray Carlo

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAY TRACING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BOX METHOD; DART; LVIS; MONTE-CARLO RAY TRACING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RAY CARLO;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA ACQUISITION; FIELD OF VIEW; LEAF AREA; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAY TRACING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979895520     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.07.010     Document Type: Article

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