Light Scattering and Polarization by the Atmosphere and the Earth's Surface

A Book for Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Applications

1st Edition - June 1, 2026
Authors: Wenbo Sun, Yongxiang Hu
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 5 8 - 0
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 5 9 - 7

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Light Scattering and Polarization by the Atmosphere and Earth Surface is a comprehensive review of the theory and applications of light scattering and polarization in satellite and ground-based remote sensing. It covers fundamental theory to applications in practice, theoretical developments and includes utilizing measurement data. This in-depth work, from two front-line scientists in this field, covers the latest knowledge of light scattering and polarization from the atmosphere and earth surface and is written for readers to be able to directly apply what they learn in their research.

Wenbo Sun

Wenbo Sun is a senior research scientist of Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI) in Virginia, United States. He works in NASA Langley Research Center for climate-related satellite remote-sensing missions. He gained his B.Sc. degree in atmospheric physics from Peking University in 1988; he received his M.Sc. degree in ocean remote sensing from the State Ocean Administration (SOA) of China in 1991. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in atmospheric sciences from Dalhousie University, Canada in 2000. Wenbo Sun’s research interests involve light scattering by arbitrarily shaped atmospheric particles, radiation transfer in clouds and aerosol layers, and satellite remote sensing of Earth-atmosphere system. He has authored more than 75 publications in his career to date.

Yongxiang Hu

Dr. Hu got his PhD degree from University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Since 1995, Dr. Hu has been a research scientist / senior research scientist at NASA Langley Research Center. Dr. Hu began his career working on radiative transfer and climate modeling in his PhD study. He worked on the ERBE and CERES projects, and then joined the CALIPSO team studying lidar remote sensing. Dr. Hu is currently working on developing innovative remote sensing concepts, such as photon orbital angular momentum measurements and studying sub-diffraction limit telescopes. Dr. Hu’s primary scientific accomplishment includes: theoretical radiative transfer studies for active and passive remote sensing; discovery of the relation between lidar depolarization and multiple scattering for water cloud droplets; development of highly accurate global cloud phase product using CALIPSO observations; high spatial resolution global ocean surface wind speed retrieval technique and data product using CALIPSO lidar measurements; innovative lidar remote sensing techniques, such as using space-based lidar for studying ocean primary productivity and carbon cycle, as well as deriving value added vegetation canopy, snow and sea ice product from CALIPSO; and theoretical and engineering studies of differential absorption radar concept for measurements of ocean/land surface atmospheric pressure; Dr. Hu author/co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles with SCI index is 47 on google scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YySlI2oAAAAJ&hl=en) and 39 on ResearcherID (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-4426-2012).

Affiliations and expertise

NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA