ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF SYSTEMS AND THE UNSCRAMBLING OF DATA, II. AN INVERSE PROBLEM IN RADIATIVE TRANSFER.

Abstract : The advent of artifical satellites makes it desirable to be able to use measurements of the angular dependence of diffusely reflected sunlight from a planetary atmosphere to deduce the physical properties of the atmosphere. In this discussion it is shown that a combination of invariant imbedding and quasilinearization may be used for this purpose. Some illustrative numerical results are provided.

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