Identification of surface areas to represent a suitable surface boundary condition for atmospheric radiative transfer analysis

Author

Engelsen, Ola ; Pinty, Bernard ; Govaerts, Yves ; Verstraete, Michel M.

Author_Institution

Norut Inf. Technol., Tromso, Norway

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

6-10 Jul 1998

Firstpage

2128

Abstract

This paper describes a method for identification of surfaces of prespecified bidirectional reflectance characteristics within satellite imagery in the optical spectral domain on the basis of radiative transfer modeling of satellite-level reflectances. The method takes both spectral, temporal and directional information into account. The approach is particularly promising for the new generation of optical satellite sensors due to be launched towards the end of the millenium

Keywords

atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; geophysical techniques; radiative transfer; remote sensing; IR imaging; atmosphere; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; light scattering; meteorology; optical imaging; optical spectral domain; optics; prespecified bidirectional reflectance; radiative transfer; radiative transfer model; remote sensing; satellite imagery; satellite-level reflectance; surface area identification; surface boundary condition; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; Atmosphere; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Boundary conditions; Land surface; Lighting; Optical sensors; Reflectivity; Satellite broadcasting; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, 1998. IGARSS '98. 1998 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4403-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1998.703763

Filename

703763