Theory of Reflectance and Emittance Spectroscopy

Bruce Hapke

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1993
• Print ISBN:
  9780521307895
• eBook ISBN:
  9780511870552
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Bauingenieurwesen

This book is aimed at students and researchers who wish to use reflectance and emittance as quantitative tools to measure the properties of surfaces and materials. It is intended primarily for use in the interpretation of remote observations of the surfaces of the Earth and other planets, and it will also be useful to chemists, physicists, geologists, engineers and others who deal with particulate media. Topics include propagation and absorption of light in continuous media, reflection by smooth surfaces, scattering by spheres and irregular particles, reflectances and emissivities of particulate media, reflectance and emittance spectroscopy, and the polarization of light scattered by particulate media. Many examples of applications are given.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• 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, planetry 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 All
• Appendix C. The wave equation in spherical coordinates
• Appendix D. Table of symbols
• Bibliography
• Index