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Rough-Surface Shadowing of Self-Affine Random Rough Surfaces

Optics 2020-10-09 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Abstract

Light scattering from self-affine homogeneous isotropic random rough surfaces is studied using the ray-optics approximation. Numerical methods are developed to accelerate the first-order scattering simulations from surfaces represented as single-connected single-valued random fields, and to store the results of the simulations into a numerical reflectance model. Horizon mapping and marching methods are developed to accelerate the simulation. Emphasis is given to the geometric shadowing and masking effects as a function of surface roughness, especially, to the azimuthal rough-surface shadowing effect.

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@article{arxiv.2010.03927,
  title  = {Rough-Surface Shadowing of Self-Affine Random Rough Surfaces},
  author = {Hannu Parviainen and Karri Muinonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03927},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Published in JQSRT 106 (2007)

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