Redevelopment of Kennaugh's target characteristic polarization state theory using the polarization transformation ratio formalism for the coherent case

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 2-14

  Agrawal, Amit P ^a   Boerner, Wolfgang M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES--POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING;

POINCARE SPHERE; QUARTER WAVE REFLECTORS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; RADAR TARGET CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR;

EID: 0024478978     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.20269     Document Type: Article

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