Chapter Remote Sensing Studies of Urban Canopies: 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling

• Main Author: Landier, Lucas (auth)
• Other Authors: Lauret, Nicolas (auth), Yin, Tiangang (auth), Bitar, Ahmad Al (auth), Gastellu-Etchegorry, JeanPhilippe (auth), Feigenwinter, Christian (auth), Parlow, Eberhard (auth), Mitraka, Zina (auth), Chrysoulakis, Nektarios (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: InTechOpen 2016
• Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; DART, model, radiative transfer, albedo, thermal exitance, remote sensing, urban canopies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Need for better understanding and more accurate estimation of radiative fluxes in urban environments, specifically urban surface albedo and exitance, motivates development of new remote sensing and three‐dimensional (3D) radiative transfer (RT) modeling methods. The discrete anisotropic radiative transfer (DART) model, one of the most comprehensive physically based 3D models simulating Earth/atmosphere radiation interactions, was used in combination with satellite data (e.g., Landsat‐8 observations) to better parameterize the radiative budget components of cities, such as Basel in Switzerland. After presenting DART and its recent RT modeling functions, we present a methodological concept for estimating urban fluxes using any satellite image data.