Degree of polarization at horizontal transmit: Theory and applications for weather radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1291-1301

  Galletti, Michele ^a   Zrnic, Dusan S ^b   Melnikov, Valery M ^b   Doviak, Richard J ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation pattern; copolar radiation pattern; cross channel coupling; cross polar correlation coefficient; cross polar radiation pattern; degree of polarization at horizontal transmit; linear depolarization ratio (LDR)

Indexed keywords

COHERENCY MATRIX; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; FOUR-DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; PROPAGATION EFFECT;

ANTENNA RADIATION; ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DEPOLARIZATION;

BACKSCATTER; MATRIX; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; RADIATION BALANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84859768698     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2167516     Document Type: Review

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