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Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER

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Scattering properties of leaves<br />

• Once the radiation is intercepted by the vegetation elements, it<br />

is scattered in directions determined by the leaf orientations and<br />

the leaf phase function<br />

Ω<br />

• Leaf reflection and transmission<br />

depend primarily on wavelength,<br />

plant species, growth condition,<br />

age and position in canopy.<br />

• Directionality of leaf scattering<br />

depends on the leaf surface<br />

roughness, and the percentage<br />

of diffusely scattered photons<br />

from leaf interior.<br />

Ω<br />

Ω L<br />

plate model<br />

‣ Plate models often assume Bi-Lambertian scattering properties:<br />

- radiation is scattered according to cosine law: | Ω L · Ω |<br />

- magnitude depends on leaf reflection and transmission values<br />

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