Atmospheric optical depth effects on angular anisotropy of plant canopy reflectance

Abstract A field experiment was conducted to determine whether changes in atmospheric aerosol optical depth would effect changes in bi-directional reflectance distributions of vegetation canopies. Measurements were made of the directionally reflected radiance distributions of two pasture grass canopies (same species, different growth forms) and one soya bean plant canopy under different sky irradiance distributions, which resulted from a variation in aerosol optical depth. The reflected radiance data were analysed in the solar principal plane in two narrow spectral bands, one visible (662 nm) and one infrared (826 nm). The observed changes in reflectance for both wavelengths from irradiance distribution variation is interpreted to be due largely to changes in the percentage of shadowed area viewed by the sensor for the incomplete canopies (pasture grass). For the complete coverage vegetation canopy (soya bean) studied, the effects of specular reflection and the increased diffuse irradiance penetration int...

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