- The following text is adapted from MODTRAN site -
The MODTRAN® (Berk et al., 2014) (Berk et al., 2008) (MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission) computer code is used worldwide by research scientists in government agencies, commercial organizations, and educational institutions for the prediction and analysis of optical measurements through the atmosphere. MODTRAN was developed and continues to be maintained through a longstanding collaboration between Spectral Sciences, Inc. (SSI) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The code is embedded in many operational and research sensor and data processing systems, particularly those involving the removal of atmospheric effects, commonly referred to as atmospheric correction, in remotely sensed multi- and hyperspectral imaging.
The underlying physics and algorithms used in MODTRAN are well established and, with over a 30 year heritage, MODTRAN has been extensively validated, serving as the community standard atmospheric band model.
Our Atmospheric LUT Generator (ALG) toolbox supports usage of MODTRAN v5 (Berk et al., 2006). Integration of MODTRAN v6 (Berk et al., 2015) is on-going.
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.