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Spectral Information Content of Remote Sensing Imagery

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The Earth surface materials show phenomenal diversity in composition, density, grain size, porosity, dielectric constant, surface texture, roughness, orientation, geometry, etc. that in turn control the reflectance, emittance and related physical properties that are particularly significant for remote sensing of Earth’s surface.

Reflectance and related properties: Reflectance and reflectance related properties are in general inconsistently defined and used within the remote sensing community. Directional attributes of reflectance, in particular, are used in loose and unspecified ways in published literature. An excellent summary of reflectance quantities and ambiguities in their usage is presented by Schaepman-Strub et al. (2006).

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    Rudiger Gens

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  1. School of Remote Sensing, and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430079, China, People's Republic

    Deren Li

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    Jianya Gong

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Gens, R. (2010). Spectral Information Content of Remote Sensing Imagery. In: Li, D., Shan, J., Gong, J. (eds) Geospatial Technology for Earth Observation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0050-0_7

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