Optimum Polarizations in the Bistatic Scattering from Layered Random Media

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 169-176

  Mudaliar, Saba ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TRANSMITTERS;

BISTATIC MUELLER MATRIX; BORN APPROXIMATION; HALF SPACE RANDOM MEDIUM; OPTIMUM POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC BISTATIC SCATTERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0028060687     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.285199     Document Type: Article

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