Second Simulation Of The Satellite Signal In The Solar Spectrum - 6s Code

5 INTRODUCTION 7 DESCRIPTION OF ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS 11 1Absorbing effects 11 2Scattering effects 13 2.1 Case of a Lambertian homogenous target 13 2.2 Environment function 15 2.3 Intrinsic atmospheric reflectance 17 2.4 Airplane and elevated target simulations 19 2.5 Directional effect of the target 22 2.6 Atmospheric correction scheme 24 3Interaction between absorption and scattering effects 24 CONCLUSION 27 FIGURES 28 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 33 APPENDIX: I Description of the computer code 35 II Examples of inputs and outputs 53 III Description of the subroutines 57 6S User Guide Version 1, November 3, 1995

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