The Atmospheric Look-up table Generator (ALG) GUI software package provides a seamless link between inputs and outputs required for running atmospheric radiative transfer models (RTM) and generate Look-Up Tables (LUT) of atmospheric transfer functions. This section provides a list of documents in which the ALG software package is based:
Vicent, J., Sabater, N., Verrelst, J., Alonso, L., and Moreno, J. (2017), "Assessment of approximations in aerosol optical properties and vertical distribution into FLEX atmospherically-corrected surface reflectance and retrieved sun-induced fluorescence." Remote Sensing. Vol. 9, No. 7, 675.
Vicent, J., Verrelst, J., Sabater, N., Alonso, L., Rivera-Caicedo, J.P., Martino, L., Muñoz-Marí, J. and Moreno, J. (2019), "Comparative analysis of atmospheric radiative transfer models using the Atmospheric Look-up table Generator (ALG) toolbox (version 2.0)." Geoscientific Model Development Discuss.. (in review).
ALG software implements the algorithms described in the following papers:
Guanter, L., Richter, R., & Kaufmann, H. (2009), "On the application of the MODTRAN4 atmospheric radiative transfer code to optical remote sensing." International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 30, pp. 1407‒ 1424.
Verhoef, W. & Bach, H. (2012), "Simulation of Sentinel-3 images by four stream surface atmosphere radiative transfer modeling in the optical and thermal domains." International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 15, pp. 197‒ 207.
Huang, F., Zhou, J., Tao, J., Tan, X., Liang, S., & Cheng, J. (2016), "PMODTRAN: A parallel implementation based on MODTRAN for massive remote sensing data processing." International Journal of Digital Earth. Vol. 9, pp. 819‒ 934.
Vicent, J., Alonso, L., Martino, L., Sabater, N., Verrelst, J., Camps-Valls, G. & Moreno, J. (2018), "Gradient-based Automatic Look-Up Table Generator for Radiative Transfer Models," IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing. Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 1040‒ 1048.
Berk, A., Anderson, G., Acharya, P., & Shettle, E.P. (2011), "MODTRAN®5.2.1 User's Manual." Spectral Sciences Inc..
Berk, A., Anderson, G., Acharya, P., Bernstein, L., Muratov, L., Lee, J., Fox, M., Adler-Golden, S., Chetwynd, J., & Hoke, M. (2006), "MODTRANTM5: 2006 update." Proc. of SPIE 6233, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery. XII, 62331F.
Berk, A., Acharya, P.K., Bernstein, L.S., Anderson, P., Lewis, J.H., & Hoke, M.L. (2008), "Band model method for modeling atmospheric propagation at arbitrary fine spectral resolution." U.S. Patent #7433806. issued October 7, 2008.
Berk, A., Conforti, P., Kennett, R., Perkins, T., Hawes, F., & van den Bosch, J. (2014), "MODTRAN6: a major upgrade of the MODTRAN radiative transfer code." Proc. of SPIE 9088, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery. XX, 90880H.
Berk, A., Conforti, P., & Hawes, F. (2015), " An accelerated line-by-line option for MODTRAN combining on-the-fly generation of line center absorption with 0.1 cm-1 bins and pre-computed line tails." Proc. of SPIE 9472, Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral, and Ultraspectral Imagery. XXI, 947217.
Vermote, E.F., Tanré, D., Deuzé, J.L., Herman, M., Morcrette, J.-J., & Kotchenova, S.Y. (2009), "6S User Guide.". Version. 3.
Vermote, E.F., Tanré, D., Deuzé, J.L., Herman, M., & Morcrette, J.-J. (1997), "Second Simulation of the Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum, 6S: An Overview." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 675‒ 686.
Kotchenova, S.Y., Vermote, E.F., Matarrese, R, & Klemm, Jr., F.J. (2006), "Validation of a vector version of the 6S radiative transfer code for atmospheric correction of satellite data. Part I: Path radiance." Applied Optics. Vol. 45, No. 26, pp. 6762‒ 6774.
Kotchenova, S.Y., & E.F. Vermote, E.F. (2007), "Validation of a vector version of the 6S radiative transfer code for atmospheric correction of satellite data. Part II: Homogeneous Lambertian and anisotropic surfaces." Applied Optics. Vol. 46, No. 20, pp. 4455‒ 4464.
Kotchenova, S. Y., Vermote, E. F., Levy, R., & Lyapustin, A. (2008), "Radiative transfer codes for atmospheric correction and aerosol retrieval: intercomparison study." Applied Optics. Vol. 47, No. 13, pp. 2215‒ 2226.
Evans, K.F., & Stephens, G.L. (1991), "A new polarized atmospheric radiative transfer model." J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, Vol. 46, pp. 413‒ 423.
Mayer, B., & Kylling, A. (2005), "Technical note: The libRadtran software package for radiative transfer calculations - description and examples of use." Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 5, pp. 1855‒ 1877.
Emde, C., Buras, R., & Mayer, B. (2011), "ALIS: An efficient method to compute high spectral resolution polarized solar radiances using the Monte Carlo approach." J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer. Vol. 112, pp. 1622‒ 1631.
Emde, C., Buras-Schnell, A., Kylling, B., Mayer, B., Gasteiger, U., Hamann, U., Kylling, J., Richter, B., Pause, C., Dowling, T., & Bugliaro, L. (2016), "The libradtran software package for radiative transfer calculations (version 2.0.1)." Geoscientific Model Development. Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 1647‒ 1672.
Hess, M., Koepke, P., & Schult, I. (1998), "Optical properties of aerosols and clous: the software package OPAC." Bulletin of the Americal Meteorologic Soctiety. Vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 831‒ 844.
Koepke, P., Gasteiger, J., & Hess (2015), "Technical Note: Optical properties of desert aerosol with non-spherical mineral particles data incorporated to OPAC." Atmos. Chem. Phys.. Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 5947‒ 5946.