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1st ed. 2015.

1 online resource (XIII, 430 pages 133 illustrations, 103 illustrations in color.)

Springer Praxis Books

1. Single light scattering -- 1.2. Scattering of electromagnetic plane waves in radially inhomogeneous media: connections with potential scattering theory -- 2. Radiative transfer and remote sensing -- 2.1. The RAY code for fast and accurate simulation of the vector radiative transfer in atmosphere-land and atmosphere-ocean systems -- 2.2. The general-purpose discrete-ordinate algorithm DISORT for radiative transfer -- 2.3. Genesis and evolution of the use of polarization in remote sensing of atmosphere and ocean -- 2.4. Remote sensing of mixed cloud and aerosol scenes -- 2.5. Evaluations of daily average direct aerosol-induced radiative forcing from field measurements performed during regional experiments -- 3. Mueller matrix and light reflectance measurements -- 3.1 Principles of the Mueller matrix measurements -- 3.2. Reflectance of various land surface types: bidirectional, spectral, and polarisation properties.

Kokhanovsky, Alexander A,