Tokyo: Springer-Verlag, 1998. — 293 pp.In this book we share our work with those who are faced with the challenging problem of studying the earth's atmosphere and the interactions between the atmosphere and the earth's surface. While there are some excellent books on this topic written from the physical point of view, those discussing the modeling and computational aspects are few and far between. Our book is intended to bridge this gap so that students as well as investigators will be able to understand and apply practical ways of determining solutions. Radiative transfer theory, on which this book is based, is elegant, and great minds have contributed to its richness. Instead of duplicating the classical references, we have taken a different approach: We have developed the invariant imbedding approach, both analytically and computationally, because of its attractiveness for producing numerical solutions.Basic Concepts.
Inhomogeneous Plane-Parallel Atmospheres.
Inverse Problems.
Anisotropic Scattering.
Finite Orders of Scattering.
Scattering Matrix.
Atmospheric Correction.
Topographic Effects in Terrestrial Remote Sensing.
Searchlight Problem.
Transfer of Radiation with Spherical Symmetry.
Bibliography.
Appendix.
Index.
