MODTRAN4 radiative transfer modeling for atmospheric correction

Alexander Berk; Gail P. Anderson; Lawrence S. Bernstein; Prabhat K. Acharya; H. Dothe; Michael W. Matthew; Steven M. Adler-Golden; James H. Chetwynd Jr.; Steven C. Richtsmeier; Brian Pukall; Clark L. Allred; Laila S. Jeong; Michael L. Hoke

doi:10.1117/12.366388

20 October 1999 MODTRAN4 radiative transfer modeling for atmospheric correction

Alexander Berk, Gail P. Anderson, Lawrence S. Bernstein, Prabhat K. Acharya, H. Dothe, Michael W. Matthew, Steven M. Adler-Golden, James H. Chetwynd Jr., Steven C. Richtsmeier, Brian Pukall, Clark L. Allred, Laila S. Jeong, Michael L. Hoke

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Proceedings Volume 3756, Optical Spectroscopic Techniques and Instrumentation for Atmospheric and Space Research III; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366388
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

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MODTRAN4, the latest publicly released version of MODTRAN, provides many new and important options for modeling atmospheric radiation transport. A correlated-k algorithm improves multiple scattering, eliminates Curtis-Godson averaging, and introduces Beer's Law dependencies into the band model. An optimized 15 cm^-1 band model provides over a 10-fold increase in speed over the standard MODTRAN 1 cm^-1 band model with comparable accuracy when higher spectral resolution results are unnecessary. The MODTRAN ground surface has been upgraded to include the effects of Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs) and Adjacency. The BRDFs are entered using standard parameterizations and are coupled into line-of-sight surface radiance calculations.

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Alexander Berk, Gail P. Anderson, Lawrence S. Bernstein, Prabhat K. Acharya, H. Dothe, Michael W. Matthew, Steven M. Adler-Golden, James H. Chetwynd Jr., Steven C. Richtsmeier, Brian Pukall, Clark L. Allred, Laila S. Jeong, and Michael L. Hoke "MODTRAN4 radiative transfer modeling for atmospheric correction", Proc. SPIE 3756, Optical Spectroscopic Techniques and Instrumentation for Atmospheric and Space Research III, (20 October 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.366388

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