Numerical accuracy of a two-stream radiative transfer model from comparison with an N-stream model

In the past, a relatively simple radiative transfer model, based on scattering and extinction of two semi-isotropic diffuse fluxes and two direct fluxes (solar beam and radiance in the viewing direction), has been applied to vegetation canopies and to the atmosphere. This model takes little computing power, but its numerical accuracy had not yet...

A scene radiation model based on four-stream radiative transfer theory

A simple analytical four-stream radiative transfer model based on Suits's differential equations is applied to the atmosphere-earth system in order to investigate the effects of the atmosphere and the view angle on remotely sensed multispectral radiance data from vegetation canopies. This scene radiation model is composed of two atmospheric...