Abstract
The geometry of airborne reflectance measurements above broken cloud fields is simulated for various flight levels, artificial and natural cloud distributions with a simple ray-tracing technique. A similarity relation, which uses the cloud structure within the field of view of the pyranometer below the aircraft, could be derived to extrapolate from these airborne samples to averages over larger areas, which for instance are covered by several pixels of satellite measurements. The data probes were obtained during the first flight of the metric camera (MOMS-O1) in the “Shuttle Pallet Satellite”. The application of this method in field experiments requires areal overviews (photographs from aircraft or satellites) of the experiment site to be sampled from aircraft.
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