Stable decomposition of Mueller matrix

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E81-B, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1261-1267

  Yang, Jian ^a   Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Yamada, Hiroyoshi ^a   Sengoku, Masakazu ^a   Lin, Shiming ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Mueller matrix; Radar polarimetry; Scattering matrix; Target classification

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HUYNEN'S DECOMPOSITION; MUELLER MATRIX;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032093008     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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