Marine environment background synthesis using MODTRAN 4
Vincent Ross, Denis Dion · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
To date, physically accurate and reasonably fast background generation in a marine environment has been an elusive objective. The pursuit has been plagued by slow radiative transfer codes and sea BRDF (bidirectional reflectance distribution functions) implementations that traded accuracy for speed. Recent developments in both these fields have put this goal into our grasp. In this paper, we show that an accurate and fast sea BRDF model can be implemented into modern radiative transfer codes. In this instance, it is integrated in a widely used code, MODTRAN 4, to produce marine environment backgrounds with an acceptable computation time and less tradeoff in accuracy.