Abstract: Atmospheric path radiation remote sensing images are based on values of atmospheric path radiation in remote sensing data dependent only on the state of atmosphere but not ground conditions. Although atmospheric path radiation causes interference to observation of the earth, it provides crucial information such as atmospheric transmitting characteristics, atmospheric modification of remotely sensed images, regional atmospheric status, and atmospheric environment quality. Therefore, it is important both in theory and practice to generate atmospheric path radiation images by extracting atmospheric path radiation values from the remote sensing images and the corresponding surface reflectance.

Key words: heterogeneous atmosphere
, remote sensing digital image, surface reflectance, atmospheric path radiation