A GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR INVERSE RADIATION PROBLEMS

An inverse radiation analysis for simultaneous estimation of the singl e scattering albedo, the optical thickness and the phase function, fro m the knowledge of the exit radiation intensities is presented. A gene tic algorithm is adopted as the optimizer to search the parameters of the radiation system. The study shows that the single scattering albed o and the optical thickness can be estimated accurately even with nois y data. The estimation of the phase function is more difficult than th at of the single scattering albedo and the optical thickness. Copyrigh t (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.