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Everything about Subsurface scattering
Mechanism of light transport
In optics, subsurface scattering or subsurface light transport is the traveling of light through the surface of translucent object, the subsequent scattering of light caused by interactions with the material, and exiting the surface potentially at a different point. Light generally penetrates the surface and gets scattered a number of times at irregular angles inside the material before passing back out of the material at a different angle than it would have had if it had been reflected directly off the surface. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Subsurface scatteringA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Widespread occurrence of anomalous C-band backscatter signals in arid environments caused by subsurface scatteringInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Remote sensing tools for explorationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Remote sensing of subsurface water temperature by Raman scatteringCited 114 times
- Go sideways: Depth mapA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Computer graphics lightingA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Remote sensing of subsurface water temperature by Raman scattering
Fabricating spatially-varying subsurface scattering
Physical reproduction of materials with specified subsurface scattering
Neutron scattering: A subsurface application review
Multiple Scattering of Elastic Waves by Subsurface Fractures and Cavities
A compact factored representation of heterogeneous subsurface scattering
Airborne lidar detection of subsurface oceanic scattering layers
Directional Dipole Model for Subsurface Scattering
🆕 Influential since 2022
Widespread occurrence of anomalous C-band backscatter signals in arid environments caused by subsurface scattering
Efficient Photon Beam Diffusion for Directional Subsurface Scattering
Global Scale Mapping of Subsurface Scattering Signals Impacting ASCAT Soil Moisture Retrievals
Feasibility of polarized laser scattering in detecting the grinding-induced subsurface damage in SiCf/SiC ceramic matrix composite
Nanoscale subsurface dynamics of solids upon high-intensity femtosecond laser irradiation observed by grazing-incidence x-ray scattering
📚 Books worth reading
Remote sensing tools for explorationPamela Elizabeth Clark · 2010- 📕Design Manual for Roads and Bridges : Vol. 4 : Geotechnics and Drainage, Section 2 : Drainage, Part 4Highways England · 2019
Glass surfacesRolla Ceramic Materials Conference on Glass Surfaces (4th 1975 Saint Louis, Mo.) · 1975- 📕Exploration of subsurface phenomena by particle scatteringNghi Q. Lam, C. Melendres · 2000
- 📕A gamma-scattering soil density gauge for subsurface measurementsJohn Foster Cameron · 1958
- 📕[The effect of sub-surface volume scattering on the accuracy of ice-sheet altimeter retracking algorithms] · 1993
- 📕[The effect of sub-surface volume scattering on the accuracy of ice-sheet altimeter retracking algorithms] · 1993
- 📕[The effect of sub-surface volume scattering on the accuracy of ice-sheet altimeter retracking algorithms] · 1993
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