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    Remote Sensing: Radiation Laws - Having Some Problems Making Images of Equations

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    Remote sensing involves observing objects from a distance, such as observing volcanic eruptions via satellite imaging tools. These tools measure electromagnetic energy emitted by all objects above absolute zero. As energy travels through the atmosphere, some is reflected and some is absorbed and reemitted. By measuring the energy reaching a satellite, features can be characterized. Radiation laws describe how objects emit radiation based on temperature, with Stefan-Boltzmann law stating emitted energy increases with temperature and Wien's law relating wavelength of maximum emittance to temperature. Atmospheric interactions like scattering and absorption can alter radiation through redirection or energy level changes.

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    Remote Sensing: Radiation Laws - Having Some Problems Making Images of Equations

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    Remote sensing involves observing objects from a distance, such as observing volcanic eruptions via satellite imaging tools. These tools measure electromagnetic energy emitted by all objects above absolute zero. As energy travels through the atmosphere, some is reflected and some is absorbed and reemitted. By measuring the energy reaching a satellite, features can be characterized. Radiation laws describe how objects emit radiation based on temperature, with Stefan-Boltzmann law stating emitted energy increases with temperature and Wien's law relating wavelength of maximum emittance to temperature. Atmospheric interactions like scattering and absorption can alter radiation through redirection or energy level changes.

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    Remote sensing involves observing objects from a distance, such as observing volcanic eruptions via satellite imaging tools. These tools measure electromagnetic energy emitted by all objects above absolute zero. As energy travels through the atmosphere, some is reflected and some is absorbed and reemitted. By measuring the energy reaching a satellite, features can be characterized. Radiation laws describe how objects emit radiation based on temperature, with Stefan-Boltzmann law stating emitted energy increases with temperature and Wien's law relating wavelength of maximum emittance to temperature. Atmospheric interactions like scattering and absorption can alter radiation through redirection or energy level changes.

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    Remote Sensing: Radiation Laws - Having Some Problems Making Images of Equations

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    Remote sensing involves observing objects from a distance, such as observing volcanic eruptions via satellite imaging tools. These tools measure electromagnetic energy emitted by all objects above absolute zero. As energy travels through the atmosphere, some is reflected and some is absorbed and reemitted. By measuring the energy reaching a satellite, features can be characterized. Radiation laws describe how objects emit radiation based on temperature, with Stefan-Boltzmann law stating emitted energy increases with temperature and Wien's law relating wavelength of maximum emittance to temperature. Atmospheric interactions like scattering and absorption can alter radiation through redirection or energy level changes.

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    REMOTE SENSING

    Remote sensing in it's broadest sense is simply defined as the observation of an object
    from some distance. In the case of volcanic clouds this often means observing an
    eruptive event using imaging tools positioned on satellites. To understand how these
    tools operate the first thing that must be understood is what the instruments are
    actually measuring.
    Electromagnetic Spectrum
    All objects at a temperature greater than absolute zero emit, absorb, and reflect
    electormagnetic energy. This energy, measured in photons travels in the form of
    waves at a variety of wavelengths. The complete array of wavelengths is known as
    the electromagnetic spectrum which is brocken down into regions that are defined by
    specific wavelenghts.

    As this energy travels through the Earth's atmosphere some is reflected and some is
    absorbed and reemitted. By measuring the energy reaching a satellite one can
    characterize the features producing the reponse recorded by the sensor.

    Radiation Laws - having some problems making images of


    equations
    Kirchhoff's Law states that for all blackbodies at the same temperature, the ratio of
    emitted radiation to absorbed radiation is the same. Emissivity is then calculated as
    the ratio of the emittatnce of an object and the emittance of a blackbody at the same
    temperature.

    Stefan-Boltzmann Law states that the energy per unit area that a blackbody emits
    increases as the temperature of the blackbody increases. Total emitted radiation is
    calculated by:

    Lastly, Wien's Displacement Law describes the relationship between the wavelength
    of emitted radiation and the temperature of the object. This law shows that as the
    temperature of an object increases the wavelength of maximum emittance increaeses.

    Interactions with the Earth's Atmosphere


    All electromagnetic radiation must travel through the Earth's atmosphere and along
    the way several things can happen to the radiation that alter the radiation in some way
    either by redirection or a change in energy level. The further away a sensor is from
    it's target, the the larger the atmospheric effects are upon the radiation.
    Scattering - Scattering is the redirection of EM energy by particles suspended
    in the atmphere. It is dependant upon the number of particles present in the
    atmosphere, the size of the particles, the wavemlength of incoming radiation
    and the depth of atmosphere that the radiation must travel through.

    Particles that are small relative to the wavelength of incoming radiation


    create rayleigh scattering. Rayleigh scattering is wave length dependant,
    favoring short wavelengths, ansd is responsible for our sky appearing blue.
    Insert Rayleigh graph and or equation here

    Mie scattering is produced by particles having diameter approzimately equal to the


    wavelength of the imcoming radiation. Mie scattering is typically created by dust,
    smoke, haze and water droplets in the lower atmosphere.
    The scattering produced by very large particles relative to the incoming radiation is
    nonselective. As the name implies,nonselective scattering is not wavelength
    dependant and scatters all wavelengths equally.
    Absorption - Absorption occurs when atmospheric particles do not allow EM
    radiation to be fully transmitted. The amount of energy absorbed is dependant upon
    the absorber and the wavelength of incoming radiation. Energy that is absorbed is
    then re-emitted at a longer wavelengths, There are three gasses in the atmosphere that
    are responsible for most of the absorption in the earth's atmosphere.

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