Isotropic scattering

Description

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Example of isotropic volume scattering

Scattering This model scatters the same amount of energy in every direction.

The corresponding uniform phase function is:

\[p(\theta) = \frac{1}{4 \cdot \pi}\]

Children Nodes

Spectrum density

The spectral scattering absorption coefficient in m-1

Ocean XML 3.0 example

<scattering type="isotropic" name="scattering">
     <spectrum type="tabulated" name="density">
             2.6e-07 437.01 2.8e-07 315.926 3e-07 234.546 3.2e-07 178.044 3.4e-07 137.734 3.6e-07 108.306
      3.8e-07 86.392 4e-07 69.788 4.2e-07 57.01 4.4e-07 47.044 4.6e-07 39.174 4.8e-07 32.89 5e-07 27.822
      5.5e-07 18.848 6e-07 13.226 6.5e-07 9.556 7e-07 7.078 7.5e-07 5.356 8e-07 4.126 8.5e-07 3.232
      9e-07 2.566 1e-06 1.68 1.1e-06 1.144 1.2e-06 0.808 1.3e-06 0.586 1.4e-06 0.434 1.5e-06 0.33
     </spectrum>
</scattering>