Micro-scale modeling of contaminant effects on surface optical properties
Abstract
The optical properties of a surface may change significantly in response to contaminants from the environment and/or human activity. We utilize a first principles, physics-based radiometric ray tracing software package to evaluate the spectral polarimetric bi-directional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of the virgin and contaminated surfaces. In the absence of contaminants, we find the simulated reflectance properties of randomly rough Gaussian surfaces to be well represented by micro-facet based polarimetric BRDF models. However the addition of contaminants introduces phenomenology that falls outside the basic assumptions of the micro-facet BRDF models. We present results of BRDF simulations of painted surfaces with liquid and solid contaminants.
- Publication:
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Imaging Spectrometry XIII
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.796428
- Bibcode:
- 2008SPIE.7086E..0HG