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Measuring Spatially- and Directionally-varying Light Scattering from Biological Material
Published on: May 20, 2013
Multiple vs single scattering: assessment of magnitudes
Abstract:
All orders of scattering are analyzed for two artificial canopies. The SHL canopy consists of Small Horizontal Leaves that are much smaller than the leaf-to-leaf spacing. The IHL canopy consists of Infinite Horizontal Layers, where each leaf is of infinite extent (a horizontal plane). Hemispheric leaf reflectances and transmittances independent of the direction of illumination lead to exact solutions for these models. Sunlight that penetrates to a given leaf area index level is much stronger in an SHL canopy than that in IHL; but the difference becomes muted when leaf transmittance is large. Multiple scattering enhances the hemispheric canopy reflectance more strongly in SHL than it does in IHL. The enhancement depends linearly on leaf transmittance in SHL and on the transmittance squared in IHL. Comparison with measured reflectances ndicates that IHL model grossly underestimates multiple scattering in soybean canopies.
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