Remote Sensing of the Environment and Radiation Transfer: An Introductory Survey

Gradiation in the earth atmosphere.- Special features of self-surface (heat) radiation forming.- Calculation of the intensity of self heat radiation of the system "surface-atmosphere.- Study of depending the uncertainty of the remote surface temperature retrieval on the initial parameters exactness.- The thermal remote sounding of the atmosphere.- Calculating optical characteristics of atmospheric aerosol.- Calculating solar radiative characteristics in clouds with asymptotic formulas of the radiative transfer theory.- Calculating solar irradiance with the Eddington method.-Monte-Carlo method for the solar irradiance calculation.- Calculating radiative characteristics in approximation of the single scattering.- . Analysis of the reflection anisotropy. case study: the numerical simulation of waving water surface.- the direct calculation of the absorption coefficient of gaseous constituents of the atmosphere with the use of parameters of the fine structure of the absorption bands.- Calculating transmission functions with modeling absorption bands of atmospheric gases.- Construction and operation of the automated one-channel ir-radiometer.- Remote measurement of the surface temperature field with the automated one-channel ir-radiometer .- Quantification and analysis of the spectral composition of subsurface solar radiation diffuse reflectance in cases of deep and shallow water bodies.- Simulations and analyses of variations in colorimetric properties of natural waters with specific reference to waters with significant spatial heterogeneity of optical properties.- Retrieval of cpa concentrations from the spectral composition of subsurface water column diffuse reflectance: application to environmental remote sensing tasks.