Accurate and fast simulation of remote sensing images at top of atmosphere with DART -Lux

REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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Article

Wang, Yingjie¹  Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean -Philippe¹ 

[1] Univ Toulouse, UPS, IRD, CNRS,CNES,CESBIO, F-31401 Toulouse 09, France

关键词: DART;    Monte Carlo;    Top of atmosphere;    Radiative transfer;    Image simulation;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.rse.2021.112311

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

DART model is one of the most comprehensive and accurate radiative transfer (RT) models to simulate remotely sensed signals in the Earth-atmosphere system. Its standard RT modelling mode, called DART-FT, relies on the discrete ordinates method. Its recently developed Monte Carlo mode using an unbiased bidirectional path tracing method, called DART-Lux, increases hundredfold DART efficiency to simulate images. Since DART-Lux does not simulate yet atmospheric RT, a hybrid method has been designed to accurately and fast simulate remote sensing images at top of atmosphere (TOA). It couples the atmospheric RT modelling of DART-FT with the very efficient Earth surface RT modelling of DART-Lux. For that, a new sky light modelling, an innovative BRF camera modelling and an adapted radiative coupling framework have been designed. The efficiency and accuracy of this hybrid method have been validated using DART-FT as a reference. Here, we present this validation for a realistic forest stand. Simulation time is reduced by a factor of 750 with a relative difference of solar plane reflectance factor smaller than 1%. This hybrid method opens new perspectives for the use of 3D modelling in remote sensing applications. It is already part of the DART version freely available for scientists (https://dart.omp.eu).

【 授权许可】

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