Kokhanovsky A.A. (ed.) Light Scattering Reviews 3. Light Scattering and Reflection

Springer, Praxis, 2008. — 418 p.Light scattering media optics has a number of important applications including remote sensing of planetary atmospheres and surfaces, medical diagnostics and image transfer in ocean and atmosphere.List of contributors.Single Light Scattering
Observational quantification of the optical properties of cirrus cloud - Timothy J. Garrett.
Statistical interpretation of light anomalous diffraction by small particles and its applications in bio-agent detection and monitoring - Min Xu, A. Katz.
Light scattering by particles with boundary symmetries - Michael Kahnert.
Scattering by particles on or near a plane surface - Adrian Doicu, Roman Schuh and Thomas Wriedt.
Radiative Transfer and Inverse Problems
Impact of single- and multi-layered cloudiness on ozone vertical column retrievals using nadir observations of backscattered solar radiation - V. V. Rozanov and A. A. Kokhanovsky.
Remote sensing of clouds using linearly and circularly polarized laser beams: techniques to compute signal polarization - L. I. Chaikovskaya.
LIDORT and VLIDORT: Linearized pseudo-spherical scalar and vector discrete ordinate radiative transfer models for use in remote sensing retrieval problems - Robert Spurr.
Bi-directional Reflectance of Light from Natural and Artificial Surfaces
Bi-directional reflectance measurements of closely packed natural and prepared particulate surfaces - Hao Zhang and Kenneth J. Voss.
Light scattering from particulate surfaces in geometrical optics approximation - Yevgen Grynko and Yuriy G. Shkuratov.
Laboratory measurements of reflected light intensity and polarization for selected particulate surfaces - Yuriy G. Shkuratov, Andrey A. Ovcharenko, Vladimir A. Psarev and Sergey Y. Bondarenko.