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4 - OUTLOOK 
In future this correction approach will also integrate surface geometric correction to deliver surface bidi 
rectional reflectance from AVIRIS. 
5 - ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
The first author would like to thank the Swiss Research Foundation and NASA for supporting the project and G. 
Vane, R. O. Green, E. G. Hansen, and T. Chrien (JPL) for providing special assistance. The support of the NASA 
Ames Research Center, the Swiss Air Force, and Litton, Aero Products, Woodlands, CA is grateful acknowl- 
edged.Permission to use the digital elevation model (DHM-25), issued by the Swiss Federal Office of Topogra 
phy, for this research is greatly appreciated. 
The research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Tech 
nology, and was sponsored by the Swiss Research Foundation, Project No. 8220-33290. 
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