{"id":252587,"date":"2016-12-15T03:37:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20160014603"},"modified":"2016-12-15T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:37:30","slug":"potential-sources-of-polarized-light-from-a-plant-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=252587","title":{"rendered":"Potential Sources of Polarized Light from a Plant Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Field measurements have demonstrated that sunlight polarized during a first surface reflection by shiny leaves dominates the optical polarization of the light reflected by shiny-leafed plant canopies having approximately spherical leaf angle probability density functions (&#8220;Leaf Angle Distributions&#8221; &#8211; LAD). Yet for other canopies &#8211; specifically those without shiny leaves and\/or spherical LADs &#8211; potential sources of optically polarized light may not always be obvious. Here we identify possible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Field measurements have demonstrated that sunlight polarized during a first surface reflection by shiny leaves dominates the optical polarization of the light reflected by shiny-leafed plant canopies having approximately spherical leaf angle &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252588,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252587\/revisions\/252588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}