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Polarimetric sensing is an area of active research in a variety of applications. In particular, the use of polarization diversity has been shown to improve performance in automatic target detection and recognition. Within the diverse scope of polarimetric sensing, the field of passive polarimetric sensing is of particular interest. This chapter presents several new methods for gathering in formation using such passive techniques. One method extracts three-dimensional (3D) information and surface properties using one or more sensors. Another method extracts scene-specific algebraic expressions that remain unchanged under polariza tion transformations (such as along the transmission path to the sensor).
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Sadjadi, F., Sadjadi, F. (2009). Passive Polarimetric Information Processing for Target Classification. In: Hammoud, R.I. (eds) Augmented Vision Perception in Infrared. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-277-7_2
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