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Radiative Transfer Theory at Optical wavelengths applied to vegetation canopies: part 2

Radiative Transfer Theory at Optical wavelengths applied to vegetation canopies: part 2. UoL MSc Remote Sensing Dr Lewis plewis@geog.ucl.ac.uk. Radiative Transfer equation. Used extensively for (optical) vegetation since 1960s (Ross, 1981) Used for microwave vegetation since 1980s.

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Radiative Transfer Theory at Optical wavelengths applied to vegetation canopies: part 2

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  1. Radiative Transfer Theory at Optical wavelengths applied to vegetation canopies: part 2 UoL MSc Remote Sensing Dr Lewis plewis@geog.ucl.ac.uk

  2. Radiative Transfer equation • Used extensively for (optical) vegetation since 1960s (Ross, 1981) • Used for microwave vegetation since 1980s

  3. Radiative Transfer equation • Consider energy balance across elemental volume • Generally use scalar form (SRT) in optical • Generally use vector form (VRT) for microwave

  4. Medium 1: air z = l cos q0=lm0 q0 Medium 2: canopy in air z Pathlength l Medium 3:soil Path of radiation

  5. Scalar Radiative Transfer Equation • 1-D scalar radiative transfer (SRT) equation • for a plane parallel medium (air) embedded with a low density of small scatterers • change in specific Intensity (Radiance) I(z,W) at depth z in direction W wrt z:

  6. Scalar RT Equation • Source Function: • m - cosine of the direction vector (W) with the local normal • accounts for path length through the canopy • ke - volume extinction coefficient • P() is the volume scattering phase function

  7. Extinction Coefficient and Beers Law • Volume extinction coefficient: • ‘total interaction cross section’ • ‘extinction loss’ • ‘number of interactions’ per unit length • a measure of attenuation of radiation in a canopy (or other medium). Beer’s Law

  8. No source version of SRT eqn Extinction Coefficient and Beers Law

  9. Optical Extinction Coefficient for Oriented Leaves • Volume extinction coefficient: • ul : leaf area density • Area of leaves per unit volume • Gl : (Ross) projection function

  10. Optical Extinction Coefficient for Oriented Leaves

  11. Optical Extinction Coefficient for Oriented Leaves • range of G-functions small (0.3-0.8) and smoother than leaf inclination distributions; • planophile canopies, G-function is high (>0.5) for low zenith and low (<0.5) for high zenith; • converse true for erectophile canopies; • G-function always close to 0.5 between 50o and 60o • essentially invariant at 0.5 over different leaf angle distributions at 57.5o.

  12. Optical Extinction Coefficient for Oriented Leaves • so, radiation at bottom of canopy for spherical: • for horizontal:

  13. A Scalar Radiative Transfer Solution • Attempt similar first Order Scattering solution • in optical, consider total number of interactions • with leaves + soil • Already have extinction coefficient:

  14. SRT • Phase function: • ul - leaf area density; • m’ - cosine of the incident zenith angle •  - area scattering phase function.

  15. SRT • Area scattering phase function: • double projection, modulated by spectral terms • l : leaf single scattering albedo • Probability of radiation being scattered rather than absorbed at leaf level • Function of wavelength

  16. SRT

  17. SRT: 1st O mechanisms • through canopy, reflected from soil & back through canopy

  18. SRT: 1st O mechanisms Canopy only scattering Direct function of w Function of gl, L, and viewing and illumination angles

  19. 1st O SRT • Special case of spherical leaf angle:

  20. Multiple Scattering Contributions to reflectance and transmittance Scattering order LAI 1

  21. Multiple Scattering Contributions to reflectance and transmittance Scattering order LAI 5

  22. Multiple Scattering Contributions to reflectance and transmittance Scattering order LAI 8

  23. Multiple Scattering • range of approximate solutions available • Recent advances using concept of recollision probability, p • Huang et al. 2007

  24. i0=1-Q0 s i0 p Q0 s1=i0w(1 – p) p: recollision probability w: single scattering albedo of leaf

  25. 2nd Order scattering: i0 w2i0 p(1-p) wi0 p

  26. ‘single scattering albedo’ of canopy

  27. Average number of photon interactions: The degree of multiple scattering Absorptance p: recollision probability Knyazikhin et al. (1998): p is eigenvalue of RT equation Depends on structure only

  28. For canopy: Spherical leaf angle distribution pmax=0.88, k=0.7, b=0.75 Smolander & Stenberg RSE 2005

  29. Clumping Canopy with ‘shoots’ as fundamental scattering objects:

  30. Canopy with ‘shoots’ as fundamental scattering objects:

  31. pshoot=0.47 (scots pine) p2<pcanopy Shoot-scale clumping reduces apparent LAI pcanopy p2 Smolander & Stenberg RSE 2005

  32. Other RT Modifications • Hot Spot • joint gap probabilty: Q • For far-field objects, treat incident & exitant gap probabilities independently • product of two Beer’s Law terms

  33. RT Modifications • Consider retro-reflection direction: • assuming independent: • But should be:

  34. RT Modifications • Consider retro-reflection direction: • But should be: • as ‘have already travelled path’ • so need to apply corrections for Q in RT • e.g.

  35. RT Modifications • As result of finite object size, hot spot has angular width • depends on ‘roughness’ • leaf size / canopy height (Kuusk) • similar for soils • Also consider shadowing/shadow hiding

  36. Summary • SRT formulation • extinction • scattering (source function) • Beer’s Law • exponential attenuation • rate - extinction coefficient • LAI x G-function for optical

  37. Summary • SRT 1st O solution • use area scattering phase function • simple solution for spherical leaf angle • 2 scattering mechanisms • Multiple scattering • Recollison probability • Modification to SRT: • hot spot at optical

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