Title

Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions of Maple and Cottonwood Leaves

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Publication Source

Applied Optics

Abstract

We present our investigations into the optical scattering properties of both sugar maple (Acer saccarum) and eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) leaves in the near-IR wavelength regime. The bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) describes the fractions of light reflected by and transmitted through a leaf for a given set of illumination and observation angles. Experiments were performed to measure the BSDF of each species at a discrete set of illumination and observation angles. We then modeled the BSDFs in such a way that other researchers may interpolate their values for scattering in any direction under illumination at any angle.

Inclusive pages

6485-6494

ISBN/ISSN

1559-128X

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Volume

46

Issue

25

Peer Reviewed

yes

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