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Manual written by Sylvain G. Leblanc and Jing M. Chen

Content

1- OVERVIEW OF THE MODEL 

2- PROBLEMS / BUGS 

3- VERSIONS AND REFERENCES

4- WARNING MESSAGES

5- FILES

6- HOW TO SET THE PARAMETERS
      6.1- PLANE MODE
      6.2- HEMISPHERICAL MODE
      6.3- HYPERSPECTRAL MODE
      6.4- USER-DEFINED MODE

7- SIMPLE MODE

8- HOTSPOT-DARKSPOT STUDIES

9- HOW TO CORRECT BRDF EFFECT WITH 5-SCALE

10- HOW TO REPRODUCE  THE BI-LAYER MODEL

11- HOW TO CORRECT LAI-2000 MEASUREMENTS UNDER
SUNLIT CONDITIONS

12- OUTPUT 

13- LIBERTY

14- COMING SOON

15. PAPERS IN HMTL FORMAT

16- INDEX

Appendix  - THE CODE

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Acknowledgement policy

1) We would appreciate any information about the research you are doing with 5-SCALE.

2)  If your research uses 5-SCALE extensively, you may want to communicate with us about co-authorship.

We are always working on improving 5-SCALE. Please indicate the version and the date you acquired the model when communicating with us.

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Acknowledgement:
Many thanks to Patrice Bicheron, Leonard Brown, Kevin Butler, Rasim Latifovic, Sara Loechel, Michael Sarich, and H. Peter White. 

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Last update: July 2002

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