This work aims to connect polarization techniques with directional relations of the leaf Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) by differentiating specular and diffuse reflectance. To do this, a single leave BRDF of Coffea canephora Pierre (Coffee) was captured by a Liquid Crystal Tuneable Filter (LCTF) camera in the 460-780 nm wavelength range with a linear polarizer. The advantage of using an image of the multispectral LCTF camera is that it is able to crop surface area of a leaf, which means it can select an arbitrary size of the field of view and identify the leaf area.
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