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In order to investigate directionality of thermal infrared emission from crop canopies, a wide-angle thermal video camera (INFRAMETRICS) equipped with an 80° FOV lens was mounted on a small aircraft and used to acquire thermal imagery along several different flight traces. Accordingly, multi-angle directional brightness temperatures were acquired at different view angles for individual pixel. The flight experiment was carried out from January 1997 to October 1997 over a 5 km×5 km flat agricultural area, located near Avignon, southeastern France.
This paper presents results from analyses performed using these data including instrument calibration, radiometric correction, atmospheric correction, temperature temporal adjustment, geometric matching and registration of images. Results are presented for different thermal infrared emission patterns of different surface types including bare soil, wheat, maize and sunflower at different growth stages.
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Liu, Q., Gu, X., Li, X. et al. Study on thermal infrared emission directionality over crop canopies with TIR camera imagery. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 43 (Suppl 1), 95–103 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916583
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916583