Abstract
A procedure of computing the radiance and the polarization parameters of radiation diffusely reflected by an inhomogeneous, plane-parallel terrestrial atmosphere bounded by a ruffled ocean surface is discussed with the aid of the doubling-adding method. If the atmosphere and the ocean are simulated by a number of homogeneous sublayers, the matrices of radiation reflected diffusely by the atmosphere-ocean system can be expressed in terms of the reflection and the transmission matrices of radiation of these sublayers by using a single iterative equation in which the polarity effect of radiation is included. The ruffled ocean surface can be treated as an interacting interface, where the transmitted radiation from below the ocean surface into the atmosphere is also taken into the derivation of equation. Finally, the computational accuracy is discussed, in addition to some approximate procedure to minimize the computational time.
This computational procedure can be used for an effective data analysis in the visible and the adjacent regions. Furthermore it is utilized for developing the most efficient remote sensing system by satellites in future.
