Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.

1. Radiation in the Earth atmosphere -- 2. Special features of self-surface (heat) radiation forming -- 3. The direct calculation of the absorption coefficient of atmosphere gases with using parameters of absorption bands fine structure -- 4. Calculating transmission functions with modeling absorption bands of atmospheric gases -- 5. Calculation of the intensity of self heat radiation of the system "surface-atmosphere" -- 6. Construction and operation of the automated one-channel IR-radiometer -- 7. Remote measurement of the surface temperature field with the automated one-channel IR-radiometer -- 8. Study of depending the uncertainty of the remote surface temperature retrieval on the initial parameters exactness -- 9. The thermal remote sounding of the atmosphere -- 10. Calculating optical characteristics of atmospheric aerosol -- 11. Calculating solar radiative characteristics in clouds with asymptotic formulas of the radiative transfer theory -- 12. Calculating solar irradiance with Eddington method -- 13. Monte-Carlo method for the solar irradiance calculation -- 14. Calculating radiative characteristics with the single scattering approximation -- 15. Analysis of the reflection anisotropy. Case study: the numerical simulation of waving water surface -- 16. Quantification and analysis of the spectral composition of subsurface solar radiation diffuse reflectance in cases of deep and shallow water bodies -- 17. Simulations and analyses of variations in colorimetric properties of natural waters with specific reference to waters with significant spatial heterogencity of optical properties -- 18. Retrieval of CPA concentrations from the spectral composition of subsurface water column diffuse reflectance: application to environmental remote sensing tasks.