Radiative transfer of snowpack/vegetation canopy at the SSM/I channels and satellite data analysis

✍ Scribed by Ya-Qiu Jin

• Book ID: 104165444
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 864 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0034-4257
• DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4257(96)00240-4

✦ Synopsis

V ector radiative transfer (VRT) at the DMSP SSMA

(Special Sensor Microwave lmager) channels @om 19 to 85 GHz) for multilayer of discrete scatterers as a model of snowpack/vegetation canopy is developed. Using the physical optics approximation, the scattering, extinction coefficients, and phase function of VRT equation for vegetation canopy are derived. The dense medium VRT is applied to the snow layer. Numerical results of two coupled VRT equations simulate scattering and emission signature from snowpack/vegetation canopy at SSMII channels. Numerical results are applied to simulation and analysis of the SSMII observations over China's northeast forest and Tibet Naqu pasture areas. OElsevier Science Inc., 1997