Everything about Radiometry

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: RadiometryA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Retrieval of cloud properties from thermal infrared radiometry using convolutional neural networkInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation DosimetryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Soil moisture mapping at regional scales using microwave radiometry: the Southern Great Plains Hydrology ExperimentCited 556 times
5. Go sideways: Radiant fluxA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Photometry (optics)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Soil moisture mapping at regional scales using microwave radiometry: the Southern Great Plains Hydrology Experiment

  T.J. Jackson, D.M. Le Vine, A.Y. Hsu · 1999 · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 556 citations

• Interferometric synthetic aperture microwave radiometry for the remote sensing of the Earth

  C.S. Ruf, C.T. Swift, A.B. Tanner · 1988 · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 495 citations

• Aquatic color radiometry remote sensing of coastal and inland waters: Challenges and recommendations for future satellite missions

  Colleen B. Mouw, Steven Greb, Dirk Aurin · 2015 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 360 citations

• Radiometry and Coherence

  A. Walther · 1968 · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 322 citations

• The visibility function in interferometric aperture synthesis radiometry

  I. Corbella, N. Duffo, M. Vall-llossera · 2004 · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 303 citations

• Sensor-independent approach to the vicarious calibration of satellite ocean color radiometry

  Bryan A. Franz, Sean W. Bailey, P. Jeremy Werdell · 2007 · Applied Optics · 297 citations

• Photothermal Radiometry

  Per-Erik Nordal, Svein Otto Kanstad · 1979 · Physica Scripta · 286 citations

• Coherence and radiometry with quasihomogeneous planar sources*

  W. H. Carter, E. Wolf · 1977 · Journal of the Optical Society of America · 275 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Retrieval of cloud properties from thermal infrared radiometry using convolutional neural network

  Quan Wang, Chen Zhou, Xiaoyong Zhuge · 2022 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 66 citations

• Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER): Instrument and Science Measurement Description

  Roy Esplin, Martin G. Mlynczak, James Russell · 2023 · Earth and Space Science · 59 citations

• Assessment of PRISMA water reflectance using autonomous hyperspectral radiometry

  Federica Braga, Alice Fabbretto, Quinten Vanhellemont · 2022 · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · 57 citations

• Using medical microwave radiometry for brain temperature measurements

  Oleg Shevelev, Marina Petrova, Andrey Smolensky · 2022 · Drug Discovery Today · 45 citations

• First mapping of polarization-dependent vegetation optical depth and soil moisture from SMAP L-band radiometry

  Zhiqing Peng, Tianjie Zhao, Jiancheng Shi · 2024 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 42 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Fundamentals of Ionizing Radiation DosimetryPedro Andreo, David T. Burns · 2017
• Principles of nuclear radiation detectionGeoffrey G. Eichholz · 1979
• Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation ProtectionJames E. Turner · 2007
• Radiation Therapy PlanningGunilla C. Bentel · 1992
• X-ray physics and equipmentFred Jaundrell-Thompson · 1965
• 📕MicrodosimetryHooshang Nikjoo, Lennart Lindborg · 2017
• 📕Measurement of short-range radiationsJ. A. B. Gibson · 1973
• Treatment planning and dose calculation in radiation oncologyGunilla C. Bentel · 1982

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🔗 Related topics

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• Photometry (optics) Photometry is a branch of optics that deals with measuring light in terms of its perceived brightness to the human eye. It is concerned with quantifying…
• Radiance In radiometry, radiance is the radiant flux emitted, reflected, transmitted or received by a given surface, per unit solid angle per unit projected area…
• Radiant exitance In radiometry, radiant exitance or radiant emittance is the radiant flux emitted by a surface per unit area, whereas spectral exitance or spectral emittance…
• Radiant intensity In radiometry, radiant intensity is the radiant flux emitted, reflected, transmitted or received, per unit solid angle, and spectral intensity is the radiant…
• Irradiance In radiometry, irradiance is the radiant flux received by a surface per unit area. The SI unit of irradiance is the watt per square metre (symbol W⋅m−2…
• Radiosity (radiometry) In radiometry, radiosity is the radiant flux leaving (emitted, reflected and transmitted by) a surface per unit area, and spectral radiosity is the radiosity…
• Radiant exposure In radiometry, radiant exposure or fluence is the radiant energy received by a surface per unit area, or equivalently the irradiance of a surface, integrated…