Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 29, Issue 8, 2141(2009)

The Research on Bidirectional Reflectance Computer Simulation of Forest Canopy at Pixel Scale

SONG Jin-ling1、*, WANG Jin-di1, SHUAI Yan-min1,2, and XIAO Zhi-qiang1
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  • 1[in Chinese]
  • 2Geography and Environment Dept. of Boston University, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston, MA., USA 02215
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    Computer simulation is based on computer graphics to generate the realistic 3D structure scene of vegetation, and to simulate the canopy regime using radiosity method. In the present paper, the authors expand the computer simulation model to simulate forest canopy bidirectional reflectance at pixel scale. But usually, the trees are complex structures, which are tall and have many branches. So there is almost a need for hundreds of thousands or even millions of facets to built up the realistic structure scene for the forest. It is difficult for the radiosity method to compute so many facets. In order to make the radiosity method to simulate the forest scene at pixel scale, in the authors’ research, the authors proposed one idea to simplify the structure of forest crowns, and abstract the crowns to ellipsoids. And based on the optical characteristics of the tree component and the characteristics of the internal energy transmission of photon in real crown, the authors valued the optical characteristics of ellipsoid surface facets. In the computer simulation of the forest, with the idea of geometrical optics model, the gap model is considered to get the forest canopy bidirectional reflectance at pixel scale. Comparing the computer simulation results with the GOMS model, and Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) multi-angle remote sensing data, the simulation results are in agreement with the GOMS simulation result and MISR BRF. But there are also some problems to be solved. So the authors can conclude that the study has important value for the application of multi-angle remote sensing and the inversion of vegetation canopy structure parameters.

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    SONG Jin-ling, WANG Jin-di, SHUAI Yan-min, XIAO Zhi-qiang. The Research on Bidirectional Reflectance Computer Simulation of Forest Canopy at Pixel Scale[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2009, 29(8): 2141

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    Received: Jun. 23, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 26, 2010

    The Author Email: Jin-ling SONG (songjl@bnu.edu.cn)

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