On Foundations of Radar Polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1986, Pages 1395-1404

  Kostinski, Alexander B ^a   Boerner, Wolfgang Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADAR - OPTIMIZATION;

CHANGE-OF-POLARIZATION-BASIS; NONSYMMETRIC TARGET OPERATOR; POLARIMETRIC OPTIMIZATION; RADAR POLARIMETRY; TARGET SCATTERING;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0022874059     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1986.1143771     Document Type: Article

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