This set of experiments was suggested to simulate the radiative transfer regime under conservative scattering conditions for homogeneous environmental scenes composed of a large number of non overlapping disc-shaped objects representing the leaves, located over a horizontal plane standing for the underlying soil surface. To address the needs of different RT models, we are providing both a statistical scene description, as well as, a file with the exact coordinates of every leaf in the canopy. You may or may not make use of this information depending on the needs of your particular model.

These objects were randomly distributed finite sized scatterers characterized by the specified radiative properties (reflectance, transmittance), and the orientation of the normals to the scatterers followed either an erectophile or a planophile distribution function. The radiative properties of the underlying soil were also specified (in this case a simple Lambertian scattering law). The particular values selected for these input variables represented classical plant canopy conditions.

The tables below provide the details required to execute each of the experiments in this category. Every table is preceeded by the corresponding experiment identifier tag <EXP> that is needed in the naming of the various measurement results files (see file naming and formatting conventions).