Deering, D.W.Ahmad, S.P.Eck, ThomasBanerjee, B.P.2024-04-292024-04-291995-07Deering, D.W., S.P. Ahmad, T.F. Eck, and B.P. Banerjee. “Temporal Attributes of the Bidirectional Reflectance for Three Boreal Forest Canopies.” 1995 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS ’95. Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications 2 (July 1995): 1239–41 vol.2. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521714.https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521714http://hdl.handle.net/11603/334791995 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS '95. Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications, 10-14 July 1995, Firenze, ItalyMultidirectional ground-based optical measurements were acquired along tramways above and beneath three important boreal forest canopies to characterize the complete radiative transfer of visible through shortwave infrared wavelengths. The three forest canopy types exhibited bidirectional reflectance features that were distinctively different from each other not only in their magnitudes of reflectance in a given spectral wavelength band and at forward and backscatter angles but also in their diurnal and seasonal changes. The above-canopy data analyses indicate that each of these forest types must be considered as having unique bidirectional reflectance distribution functions and should be modeled individually for both direct (e.g. albedo) and indirect (e.g. biophysical parameter assessments) applications in the quantitative remote sensing of the boreal forest biome.3 pagesen-USThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Public Domainhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Anisotropic magnetoresistanceBidirectional controlBiological system modelingBiomedical optical imagingDistribution functionsNASAOptical sensorsReflectivityRemote monitoringWavelength measurementText