Mie-DISORT models snow bidirectional reflectance and albedo. BRDF, HDRF, ARF, plane albedo (black-sky albedo) and spherical albedo (white-sky albedo) of snowpack can be conveniently obtained with Mie-DISORT. It uses Mie calculations to represent single scattering properties of spherical ice particles. DISORT is used to solve the radiative transfer equation for a uniform snow layer. It can also simulate the effects of snow grain shape with the use of SNICAR look-up table.
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See:
- Wang, G., Jiang, L., Xiong, C., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Characterization of NDSI variation: implications for snow cover mapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3165986.
- Wang, G., Jiang, L., Pan F., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Sensitivity of Snow NDSI to Simulated Snow Grain Shape Characteristics. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2022.3233379.