Some speed-up strategies for solving inverse radiative transfer problems

Abstract

Inversion based on the radiative transfer equation (RTE) is generally highly CPU time consuming because the forward model itself is complicated to solve when the space dimension is greater than one, and because the inversion is based on a large number of forward model runs until convergence is reached. The goal of this paper is to set up some speed-up strategies specific of inversion when radiative transfer problems are dealt with. More specifically, the accurate identification of the volumetric radiative properties i.e. both the absorption and scattering coefficients is the objective of this study.