Users Guide

Users Guide#

Configuring the Model and Setting up Your Calculation

Information on how to set up the model for your specific calculation

Solar Irradiance

Absolute vs relative radiances, and how to include the solar irradiance

Atmospheric and Surface Emissions

Enabling emission source and how to include thermal emissions

Calculating Weighting Functions

How to calculate derivatives (weighting functions) of output quantities with respect to input quantities

Polarized Calculations

Enabling calculation of the full Stokes Vector

Setting the Surface BRDF

How to use the built in surface reflectance models

Specifying Aerosols and Clouds

How aerosols and clouds can be included in the model

Calculating Fluxes

Internal flux calculation capability

Including Mie Scatterers

In-depth details on how to use the build in Mie scattering database generation

Ray Tracing and Refraction

Including refractive effects in the ray-tracing

Photochemical Emission

Photochemical emission support as a source term

Built in Geodesy Tools

Methods to work with datums such as WGS84

Input Validation

Information on how user input values are automatically validated