Abstract: | Procedures for laboratory and orbital calibration of spectrometers in the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum are described. Methods for allowing for atmospheric transmission and procedures of passive remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols are proposed. It is shown that methods of structure analysis of spectral data can be used to determine biological parameters of lake water and leaves. A. N. Sevchenko Research Institute of Applied Physical Problems, Belarusian State University, 7, Kurchatov St., Minsk, 220064, Belarus. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 269–277, March–April, 1998. |