Table 6.

A summary of emissivity values reported by publications monitoring similar biological targets, targets of the same research field and for all studies.

	agricultural animals	birds and poultry	earth and soil	humans/ medical	insects	mammals	plants	reptiles and amphibians	other	total
mean ɛ value	0.969	0.956	0.978	0.976	0.964	0.977	0.957	0.970	0.947	0.967
standard deviation in ɛ	0.018	0.033	0.020	0.007	0.009	0.015	0.038	0.020	0.059	0.026
minimum ɛ value	0.92	0.86	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.95	0.8	0.95	0.85	0.8
maximum ɛ value	1	1	1	0.98	0.97	1	1	1	1	1