Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER

Scientific Context
• Earth observing satellites are a unique tool with which to
objectively monitor terrestrial environments at the global scale.
• Temporal changes in the biosphere can be monitored using advanced
methods to interpret remote sensing data.
• The aim of these methods is to provide measurable parameters representing
the state of the terrestrial surfaces.
• These remote sensing products constitute reliable indicators of the
evolution of the living biosphere.
• In practice, one does acquire the measurements from the satellite, and would
like to know what is going on in the environment:
This is the inverse problem: Knowing the value of the electromagnetic
measurements gathered in space, how can we derive the properties of the
environment that were responsible for the radiation to reach the sensor?
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