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The model integrates the capability of Radiative Transfer Models (RTMs) to generate simulated remote sensing data with the power of deep neural networks to emulate, learn and approximate the complex pattern of physical RTMs for BRDF modeling. To implement this idea, we used a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) trained with a dataset simulated using two widely used RTMs: PROSAIL and 6S. The proposed 1D-CNN consists of convolutional, max poling, and dropout layers that collaborate to establish a more efficient relationship between the input and output variables from the coupled PROSAIL and 6S yielding a robust, fast, and accurate BRDF model. We evaluated the proposed approach performance using a collection of an independent testing dataset. The results indicated that the proposed framework for BRDF modeling performed well at four simulated Sentinel-3 OLCI bands, including Oa04 (blue), Oa06 (green), Oa08 (red), and Oa17 (NIR), with a mean correlation coefficient of around 0.97, and RMSE around 0.003 and an average relative percentage error of under 4%. Furthermore, to assess the performance of the developed network in the real domain, a collection of multi-temporals OLCI real data was used. 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