Light Scattering Reviews 2 Remote Sensing and Inverse Problems /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kokhanovsky, Alexander A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Remote sensing.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.

Table of Contents:

• Remote Sensing and Radiative Transfer
• Solar radiative transfer and global climate modelling
• On the remote sensing and radiative properties of cirrus
• Retrieval of cloud optical thickness and effective radius using multispectral remote sensing and accounting for 3D effects
• Raman lidar remote sensing of geophysical media
• Inverse Problems
• Linearization of vector radiative transfer by means of the forward-adjoint perturbation theory and its use in atmospheric remote sensing
• Derivatives of the radiation field and their application to the solution of inverse problems
• Numerical Techniques
• Studies of light scattering by complex particles using the null-field method with discrete sources
• Radiative transfer in horizontally and vertically inhomogeneous turbid media.