Titan's Ground Reflectance Retrieval from Cassini-Vims Data Taken during the July 2ND, 2004 Fly-By at 2 AM UT

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Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005em%26p...96..109a&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 96, Issue 3-4, pp. 109-117

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Titan, Atmosphere, Surface Albedo, Cassini, Radiative Transfer Calculation

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An attempt to evaluate the preliminary values of the Titan's surface albedo at 2 μm from the first Cassini-VIMS observations of the moon is presented. The methodology is based on the application of radiative transfer calculations and a microphysical model of the Titan atmosphere based on fractal aerosol. As a first guess, the surface has been considered flat and lambertian. The results are presented as a function of the geographical coordinates associated to the image pixels. The libRadtran package, using the radiative transfer equation solver DISORT 2.0, has been applied for the calculations. A test run to evaluate the model performances, using ground based observations of Titan as reference in the range of wavelengths 0.3-1.0 μm, has been carried out.The retrieved values of the surface albedo range between 0.03 and 0.22.

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