Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Electromagnetic-wave propagation
- 3 The absorption of light
- 4 Specular reflection
- 5 Single-particle scattering: perfect spheres
- 6 Single-particle scattering: irregular particles
- 7 Propagation in a nonuniform medium: the equation of radiative transfer
- 8 The bidirectional reflectance of a semiinfinite medium
- 9 The bidirectional reflectance in other geometries
- 10 Other quantities related to reflectance, integrated reflectances, planetary photometry, reflectances of mixtures
- 11 Reflectance spectroscopy
- 12 Photometric effects of large-scale roughness
- 13 Effects of thermal emission
- 14 Polarization
- Appendix A A brief review of vector calculus
- Appendix B Functions of a complex variable
- Appendix C The wave equation in spherical coordinates
- Appendix D Table of symbols
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Electromagnetic-wave propagation
- 3 The absorption of light
- 4 Specular reflection
- 5 Single-particle scattering: perfect spheres
- 6 Single-particle scattering: irregular particles
- 7 Propagation in a nonuniform medium: the equation of radiative transfer
- 8 The bidirectional reflectance of a semiinfinite medium
- 9 The bidirectional reflectance in other geometries
- 10 Other quantities related to reflectance, integrated reflectances, planetary photometry, reflectances of mixtures
- 11 Reflectance spectroscopy
- 12 Photometric effects of large-scale roughness
- 13 Effects of thermal emission
- 14 Polarization
- Appendix A A brief review of vector calculus
- Appendix B Functions of a complex variable
- Appendix C The wave equation in spherical coordinates
- Appendix D Table of symbols
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993