Local uncollided transmission at lower boundary for direct illumination from finitesized sun
This is the transmission of light originating within the solar disc that traverses the canopy unhindered down to some reference x,y location (within the canopy scene) at a height level of 0.5 m above the background surface (it is thus similar to the direct transmission estimates of the TRAC instrument, for example). Three different transects of such direct transmissions are to be generated. To account for the physical size of the solar disc all incident directions that lie within 0.25 degree of the solar illumination direction are to be included in these local direct transmission estimates. Furthermore the flux density of the radiation is to be assumed uniform 1) across the solar disc and 2) across the top-of-canopy level of the RAMI scene of interest. The ftran_loc measurement applies to all RAMI scenes that are at least 1 hectare in area (i.e., HOMOGENEOUS ABSTRACT canopies are thus excluded). The sun position should be adopted from the brfpp's geometry table, for the O06 (560nm) band only. More specifically, ftran_loc prescribes three different transects located at a height of 0.5 metres within the canopy scene and composed of 1201 local direct transmission measurements carried out at 5 cm interval. In the hypothetical case that a given local transmission measurement point along the transect is actually situated within a tree trunk then obviously the resulting transmission is 0. The location of the three transects is as follows:
RAMI scenes that have the origin of the coordinate system in the lower left corner of the scene
RAMI scenes that have the origin of the coordinate system in the center of the scene
The following graphics provide an overview of the concept of this measurements as well as the labelling of the various transects:
Since ftran_loc measurements are independent of wavelength, and in order to specify the transect location (A,B,C) within the filename itself, the RAMI file-naming convention will have to be adapted. please use the spectral tag to indicate the position of the fisheye camera as follows Therefore, spectral tag is usto indicate the position of the transect as follows: two zeros followed by the letter indicating the location of the transect (e.g., 00A, 00B or 00C) in the measurement filename. This naming strategies then results in the following filenames, for example, HET07_JPS_SUM_00C_z36A090-ftran_loc_raytran.mes for a ftran_loc measurement along transect C in Jaervselja pinestand performed with raytran model for the April mean geometry, or HET14_WCO_UND_00A_z60a045-ftran_loc_raytran.mes for a ftran_loc measurement along transect A in the Wellington citrus orchard (raytran, April, transectA).
The order in which the transmission values are to be reported in transects A and B is by starting with from the smallest X coordinate value and going towards the largest X coordinate value. For transect C one starts with the smallest Y coordinate value and moves towards the largest Y coordinate value.
Transect A in the case of a RAMI scene having the origin of the coordinate system near the center of the scene.
3603 3 0.500000 -30.00 80.00 0.668422 -29.95 80.00 0.678422 -29.90 80.00 0.688422 .... .... 79.85 80.00 12.638422 79.90 80.00 12.648422 79.95 80.00 12.658422 20.00 50.00 12.678422 20.05 50.00 12.688422 20.10 50.00 12.698422 .... .... 79.90 50.00 24.658422 79.95 50.00 24.668422 80.00 50.00 24.678422 50.00 20.00 24.688422 50.00 20.05 24.698422 50.00 20.10 24.708422 .... .... 50.00 79.90 36.668422 50.00 79.95 36.678422 50.00 80.00 36.688422 or 3603 3 0.500000 -30.00 30.00 0.668422 -29.95 30.00 0.678422 -29.90 30.00 0.688422 .... .... 29.90 30.00 12.648422 29.95 30.00 12.658422 30.00 30.00 12.668422 -30.00 0.00 12.678422 -29.95 0.00 12.688422 -29.90 0.00 12.698422 .... .... 29.90 30.00 24.658422 29.95 30.00 24.668422 30.00 30.00 24.678422 0.00 -30.00 24.688422 0.00 -29.95 24.698422 0.00 -29.90 24.708422 .... .... 0.00 29.90 36.668422 0.00 29.95 36.678422 0.00 30.00 36.688422
