A Comparison of Radar, Optic, and Specular Null Polarization Theories

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 658-671

  Hubbert, John C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

COPOLAR POLARIZATION; OPTICAL POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION STATE CHANGES; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SPECULAR NULL POLARIZATION THEORY; SPECULAR SURFACE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 0028430124     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.297983     Document Type: Article

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