A simplified expression of the radiative transfer equation in thermal IR window spectrum

Author

Matsumoto-Moriyama, Masao ; Arai, Kuhei

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Nagasaki Univ., Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

673

Abstract

For remotely sensed multispectral thermal IR radiation data analysis, an attempt is made to obtain the approximate radiative transfer equation (RTE) on the basis of the assumptions that water vapor is the only the absorber and that atmospheric radiation can be expressed by the power law of the total precipitable water. Under the simulation based on 4050 atmospheric/surface conditions, the standard deviation of the error between the brightness temperature of the VTIR channels 3 and 4 from the approximated RTE and that from LOWTRAN 7 is up to 1.5 [K]

Keywords

atmospheric radiation; radiative transfer; radiometry; remote sensing; LOWTRAN 7; VTIR channel 3; VTIR channel 4; atmospheric radiation; brightness temperature; radiative transfer equation; remotely sensed multispectral thermal IR radiation data analysis; thermal IR window spectrum; water vapor; Atmospheric modeling; Atmospheric waves; Bandwidth; Data analysis; Equations; Land surface temperature; Least squares approximation; Remote sensing; Satellites; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322245

Filename

322245