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Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER

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Uncollided intensity (1)<br />

Downward uncollided intensity at level z k<br />

Where<br />

I<br />

0<br />

↓<br />

(z<br />

k<br />

, Ω<br />

0<br />

) =<br />

I<br />

s<br />

⎡<br />

⎢1<br />

− λ<br />

⎣<br />

0<br />

Is<br />

= I (z0,<br />

Ω0)<br />

δ(<br />

Ω − Ω0)<br />

G( Ω0)<br />

⎤<br />

⎥<br />

| μ | ⎦<br />

0<br />

k<br />

is the incoming<br />

collimated beam at the top of canopy<br />

Probability that a light ray within this beam is transmitted<br />

downward in the same direction through the first k layers<br />

<strong>Gobron</strong>, N et. al. (1997) ‘A semi-discrete model for the scattering of light by vegetation’, Journal of Geophysical<br />

Research, 102, 9431-9446.<br />

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