Airborne Polarization and Directional Earth Radiation (POLDER) data acquired during the boreal ecosystematmosphere study (BOREAS) and the four-scale model of Chen and Leblanc [10] are used to investigate radiative transfer in boreal forest. The four-scale model is based on forest canopy architecture at different scales. New aspects are incorporated into the model to improve the physical represe...

This paper presents an algorithm to correct the effects of the atmosphere of POLDER hyperspectral and multiangular reflectance, paying particular emphasis to the aerosol effect. The data were acquired during the European Space Agency campaign DAISEX-99. The algorithm is based on the inversion of measured reflectance in two steps. First, we invert the POLDER reflectances to determine the three p...

The biogeochemical characterization of marine particles suspended in sea water, is of fundamental importance in many areas of ocean science. Previous studies based on theoretical calculations and field measurements have demonstrated the importance of the use of the polarized light field in the retrieval of the suspended marine particles properties. However, because of the weakness of the water ...

We propose Green functions scattering method to obtain the Casimir–Polder potential between anisotropic atom and one or two planar parallel plates. Lifshitz formula for pressure dielectric half-spaces separated by a vacuum slit is derived within same method. The also applied known conducting systems including graphene which are overviewed.

We develop a theory for Casimir-Lifshitz and Casimir-Polder interactions with semiconductor or insulator surfaces that takes into account charge drift in the bulk material through use of the classical Boltzmann equation. We derive frequency-dependent dispersion relations that give the usual Lifshitz results for dielectrics as a limiting case and, in the quasistatic limit, coincide with those re...

In this work we present results of the long-range electromagnetic Casimir-Polder interactions between two neutrons, a neutron and conducting wall, walls. As input, use dynamic dipole polarizabilities fitted to chiral EFT up pion production threshold at onset Delta resonance. Our can be relevant physics confined ultracold neutrons inside bottles.

Remote sensing of aerosol optical properties is difficult, but multi-angle, multi-spectral, polarimetric instruments have the potential to retrieve sufficient information about aerosols that they can be used to improve global climate models. However, the complexity of these instruments means that it is difficult to intuitively understand the relationship between instrument design and retrieval ...