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This software code simulates the transfer
of solar radiation in a plant canopy and provides accurate
estimates of the bidirectional reflectance of such a system
as a function of the geometry of illumination and observation,
as well as of the physical and structural properties of the
canopy.
It can simulate the reflectance of a canopy of finite depth
and includes the contribution of the underlying ground surface.
This model also allows the plant canopy to be described through
such variables as the number, size and orientation of the leaves,
as well as the total height of the canopy. A turbid medium
approach is used to represent the contribution to the total
reflectance due the light scattering at orders higher than
one.
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| Developer |
Nadine Gobron, Space Applications Institute,CEC
Joint Research Centre
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| Scientific documentation |
- Gobron, N., B. Pinty, M. M. Verstraete, and Y. Govaerts
(1997) ' A SemiDiscrete Model for the Scattering of Light
by Vegetation. ', Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 9431-9446.
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| Format information |
Model written in Fortran 77.
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| Date project began or when data was first available
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1997.
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