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Appendix C: Solar Reflection Region Measurements
Pages 76-79

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... Since, for most remote sensing instruments, reflectance measurements will be made over a limited set of incoming and outgoing angles, a full distribution function calibration is not necessary. For a remote sensing instrument operating in the solar reflective spectral region, the radiation incident at the aperture is the product of the bidirectional reflectance of Earth (surface plus atmosphere)
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From page 77...
... es i Shari (~) d~ DNi COS(OC JPD (Xi, OC, TIC | es i Shari (Ida DNi C costly Here we have normalized the solar spectral irradiance function at the wavelength Hi, ES(\i ~
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From page 78...
... Backscattered microwave radiation is also a reflectance measurement; however, the calibration methodology described above does not carry over into the microwave region simply because the radiation source is not the Sun but rather a microwave source aboard the satellite. The committee believes that NASA should evaluate the merits of this possible new approach.
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From page 79...
... 1981. "Reduction of error introduced in the processing of coastal zone color scanner-type imagery resulting from sensor calibration and solar irradiance uncertainty," Appl.
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Key Terms

  • surface reflectance
  • solar irradiance
  • absolute radiance
  • solar reflective
  • coastal zone

  • outgoing radiation
  • calibration methodology
  • zone color
  • spectral irradiance
  • distribution function

  • radiant power
  • absolute value
  • solar spectral
  • irradiance function
  • chlorophyll fluorescence

  • reflective region
  • combined absorption
  • exiting radiation
  • limited set
  • region simply

  • nasa goddard
  • atmosphere corrected
  • usually called
  • source aboard
  • complete set

  • backscattered microwave
  • reflectance distribution
  • atmospheric scattering
  • imagery resulting
  • microwave radiation


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