Forward and inverse models for photon transport in soil-ice mixtures and their application to the problem of retrieving optical properties of planetary surfaces

Paolo Picca; Roberto Furfaro; Jeffrey Kargel; Barry D. Ganapol

doi:10.1117/12.777479

15 April 2008 Forward and inverse models for photon transport in soil-ice mixtures and their application to the problem of retrieving optical properties of planetary surfaces

Paolo Picca, Roberto Furfaro, Jeffrey Kargel, Barry D. Ganapol

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Proceedings Volume 6960, Space Exploration Technologies; 69600O (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777479
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Remote sensing studies are often based on simplified approaches describing the photon transport in absorbing and scattering media. The main purpose of the present paper is to show the potentiality of modeling directly the transport phenomena by mean of linear Boltzmann equation. Some details about the solution method of the integro-differential equation are reported with a collection of results of relevance in planetary study domain. An inverse approach based on artificial neural network is also proposed to retrieve the optical properties of planetary surfaces and its performances are tested in various cases.

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Paolo Picca, Roberto Furfaro, Jeffrey Kargel, and Barry D. Ganapol "Forward and inverse models for photon transport in soil-ice mixtures and their application to the problem of retrieving optical properties of planetary surfaces", Proc. SPIE 6960, Space Exploration Technologies, 69600O (15 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.777479

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