A brief history of planetary photometry -- Photometry conventions, terminology, and standards -- The mechanics of planetary observing -- The physical basis of photometric scattering models -- Planetary reflectance and basic scattering laws -- Planetary disk-integrated photometry…
Introduction to radiometry -- Propagation of optical radiation -- Radiometric properties of materials -- Generation of optical radiation -- Detectors of optical radiation -- Radiometric system components -- Calibration and measurement -- Photometry -- Appendices. Written from a…
The material from this book was derived from a popular first-year graduate class taught by James M. Palmer for over twenty years at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences. This text covers topics in radiation propagation, radiometric sources, optical materials, de…