TITLE:
Information Theory Model for Radiation
AUTHORS:
Philipp Kornreich
KEYWORDS:
Information Theory, Maximum Information, Entropy, Scattering, Conditional Entropy
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.4 No.8,
August
25,
2016
ABSTRACT: Information based models for radiation emitted by a Black Body which passes through a scattering medium are analyzed. In the limit, when there is no scattering this model reverts to the Black Body Radiation Law. The advantage of this mathematical model is that it includes the effect of the scattering of the radiation between source and detector. In the case when the exact form of the scattering mechanism is not known a model using a single scattering parameter is derived. A simple version of this model is derived which is useful for analyzing large data.