Bi-Directional Reflectance Measurements in the Coastal Environment

Abstract

My long term goals are to experimentally determine the interrelationships and variability of optical properties in the ocean and atmosphere. I have been concentrating on aspects of scattering, both inelastic and elastic, and measurements of the radiance distribution in the ocean and atmosphere. These measurements can be combined to test and improve radiative transfer models, which are used to predict image and light transmission in the ocean. The objective of this work is to measure and characterize the in-situ spectral bi-directional reflectance function (BRDF) of benthic surfaces in the littoral zone.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA629878

Entities

People

  • Kenneth Voss

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Directional
  • Environment
  • Hot Spots
  • Illumination
  • Light Transmission
  • Littoral Zones
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Reflectance
  • Scattering
  • Sediments

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.