Bidirectional reflectance factor
From Glossary of Meteorology
bidirectional reflectance factor
A function describing the anisotropy of reflected radiance from a surface illuminated from a single direction.
It is equal to π times the reflected radiance divided by the incident irradiance from a single direction.
See also bidirectional reflection function, bidirectional reflectance distribution function.
See also bidirectional reflection function, bidirectional reflectance distribution function.
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