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variable property of interest > light backscatter coefficient

PREFERRED TERM

light backscatter coefficient  

DEFINITION

  • Exponent in Lambert-Beer’s law quantifying how much light is removed from an incident light beam while passing through a sample of unit depth exclusively by being scattered away from the incident direction into the backward solid angle relative to the incident direction.

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