Modeling plant leaf bidirectional reflectance and transmittance with a 3-D ray tracing approach

Author

Govaerts, Yves M. ; Jacquemoud, Stephane ; Verstraete, Michel M. ; Ustin, Susan L.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Remote Sensing Appls., CEC Joint Res. Centre, Ispra, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1460

Abstract

A new radiative transfer model based on Monte Carlo ray tracing techniques of leaf optical properties has been developed, where the internal three-dimensional cellular structure is explicitly described to represent morphological properties of a typical dicotyledon leaf. The main objective of this work is to perform sensitivity analyses at different wavelengths to test the influence of the leaf internal structure as well as that of pigment and water concentrations on the light attenuation profile and the bidirectional scattering shape

Keywords

geophysical techniques; light reflection; light scattering; radiative transfer; remote sensing; 400 to 2500 nm; IR; Monte Carlo ray tracing; bidirectional scattering shape; cellular structure; dicotyledon leaf; geophysical measurement technique; model; near infrared; optical imaging; plant leaf bidirectional reflectance; radiative transfer model; remote sensing; three dimensional ray tracing; transmittance; vegetation mapping; visible; Bidirectional control; Monte Carlo methods; Optical attenuators; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Performance evaluation; Pigmentation; Ray tracing; Sensitivity analysis; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521780

Filename

521780