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Fundamentals of polarimetry

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Modern Antennas

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Polarization is a property specific to electromagnetic waves, which is not found in other types of radiation such as acoustic waves. At the beginning of the development of HF and VHF systems this property received little attention.

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Further Reading

  1. Huynen, J.R., `Phenomenological theory of radar targets’, Chapter 11 of Electromagnetic Scattering, P.L. Uslenghi (ed.), Academic Press, New York, 1978.

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  2. Ulaby, F. T. and Elachi, C. (eds), Radar Polarimetry for Geoscience Applications, Artech House, Dedham, MA, 1990.

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  3. Proceedings of the 16th ESA Workshop on Dual Polarization Antennas, 8–9 June 1993, ESTEC, ESA Scientific and Technical Publications Branch, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

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  4. Note also the series of conferences on radar polarimetry organized at IRESTE, Nantes, France, entitled Journées Internationales de la Polarimetrie Radar.

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  1. Jules Henri Poincaré
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  1. Radar and Optics Group, University College London, UK

    Hugh Griffiths (Professor and Head of Microwaves, Fellow of the IEE and Senior Member of the IEEE) (Professor and Head of Microwaves, Fellow of the IEE and Senior Member of the IEEE)

  2. Corporate Research Centre, Alcatel Alsthom, Paris, France

    Bradford L. Smith (Senior Intellectual Property Counsel and Engineer, Senior Member of the IEEE and French SEE) (Senior Intellectual Property Counsel and Engineer, Senior Member of the IEEE and French SEE)

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© 1998 S. Drabowitch, A. Papiernik, H. Griffiths, J. Encinas and B. L. Smith

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Poincaré, J.H. (1998). Fundamentals of polarimetry. In: Griffiths, H., Smith, B.L. (eds) Modern Antennas. Microwave and RF Technology Series, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2758-6_12

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