Inverse Radiative Transfer Analysis for Ocean Optics.

摘要

The long-term goal of this research is to support the work of ocean optics experimentalists by developing analytical and numerical methods for solving radiative transfer inverse problems. The research on inverse problems includes methods for the determination of the absorption and backscattering coefficients, the ocean bottom albedo, the ocean surface albedo, and the spatial dependence of sources (such as layers of bioluminescence) from in-water natural-light measurements. A second long-term goal is to develop a new technique for designing an integrating cavity meter ICAM to measure the absorption coefficient.