Fully polarimetric analysis of weather radar signatures

2008 IEEE Radar Conference, RADAR 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Galletti, Michele ^a   Bebbington, David H O ^a   Chandra, Madhu ^a   Boerner, Thomas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depolarization response; Entropy; Kennaugh matrix

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; METEOROLOGY; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; DEGREE OF POLARIZATIONS; DEPOLARIZATION RESPONSE; KENNAUGH MATRIX; POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION STATE; RADAR METEOROLOGIES; WEATHER RADARS;

RADAR;

EID: 61849130173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2008.4720821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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