A new field goniometer system (FIGOS) is introduced that allows in situ measurements of hyperspectral bidirectional reflectance data under natural illumination conditions. Hyperspectral bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data sets taken with FIGOS nominally cover the spectral range between 300 and 2450 nm in 704 bands. Typical targets are smallgrowing, dense, and homogeneous...

Spectral reflectance patterns of corals are driven largely by the pigments of photosynthetic symbionts within the host cnidarian. The warm inshore bays and cooler offshore reefs of Palau share a variety of coral species with differing endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (genus: Symbiodinium), with the thermally tolerant Symbiodinium trenchii (S. trenchii) (= type D1a or D1-4) predominating under the ...

classification of vegetation according to their species composition is one of the most important tasks in the application of remote sensing in precision agriculture. to prepare an algorithm for such a mandate, there is a need for ground truth. field operation is very costly and time consuming. therefore, some other method must be developed, such as extracting information from the satellite imag...

Mapping pigmentation in human skin is expected to give useful information in reproducing and diagnosing various skin colors. In this research, maps of melanin, oxyhemoglobin and deoxy-hemoglobin in skin are estimated from multi-visible-spectral image by using an inverse optical scattering technique. In the inverse optical scattering technique, first of all, a forward model of optical scattering...

this study determined some spectral characteristics and relationship between landsat spectral reflectance and soil surface color in the arid region of iran (kashan). the study carried out in the kashan area that covers 90000 ha. consisting of mountain, hills and flood plain. enhanced thematic mapper (etm+) data collected on july 2002 were used for this research. the color composite images produ...

Canopy reflectance model inversions are widely used for estimation of vegetation properties from remote sensing, but the inversion accuracy needs significant improvements. In recent years, applications of the genetic algorithms (GA) to a variety of optimization problems in remote sensing have been successfully demonstrated. The present study is focused on the GA based inversion approach of radi...

The present paper describes the detailed analysis of the spectral reflection properties of skin surface with make-up foundation, based on two approaches of a physical model using the Cook-Torrance model and a statistical approach using the PCA. First, we show how the surface-spectral reflectances changed with the observation conditions of light incidence and viewing, and also the material compo...

In multispectral imaging, the color accuracy of spectral reflectance estimation degrades significantly if the medium of test samples is different from that of calibration samples. This occurs mainly for two reasons, i.e., the different characteristics of spectral reflectances and the different measurement principles between an imaging system and a spectrophotometer. In this paper, this problem ...

The effective reflectance of the foam on the ocean surface together with the fraction of the surface covered with foam describes the optical influence of whitecaps in the solar spectral range. This effective reflectance is found to be -22% in the visible spectral range and is presented as a function of wavelength for the solar spectral range. With the fraction of the surface covered with foam, ...

The soil or background spectra contribution to grass canopy spectral reflectance for the 0.35 to 0.80 fJ-m region was investigated using in situ collected spectral reflectance data. Regression analysis was used to estimate accurately the unexposed soil spectral reflectance and to quantify maxima and minima for soil-green vegetation reflection contrasts. generally be impractical to take detailed...