When the remote sensing pixel is composed of multiple components and a non-isothermal surface,its directional signature of thermal-infrared radiation is mainly determined by the 3D structure of the pixel.In this paper,we present our simple directional thermal radiation model to describe the relation between the pixel thermal emission and the pixel's component parameters,and invert the model to get the component temperatures.For the inversion algorithm,we focus on how to use the information of given observations in a more effective way.The information content in data space and parameter space is defined,and the transferring of information content in inversion procedure is studied.Our forward model and inversion method are validated using indoor directional measurement data.