Effect of the Instrument Slit Function on Upwelling Radiance from a Wavelength Dependent Surface Reflectance

The Radiance Enhancement (RE) method was introduced for efficient detection of clouds from the space. Recently, we have also reported that due to high reflectance combustion-originated smokes, this approach can be generalized forest fires by retrieving and analyzing datasets collected a space orbiting micro-spectrometer operating in near infrared spectral range. In our previous publication, performed comparison observed synthetic radiance spectra developing computation surface consisting different canopies weighted sum based on their areal coverage. However, should justified corresponding proportions upwelling radiance. results computations study reveal good match between coverage effect instrument slit function.