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Radar Polarimetry: Applications to Radar Systems

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Radar Target Imaging

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Wave Phenomena ((SSWAV,volume 13))

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The topic of this chapter is vector signal processing in polarimetric radars, which require simultaneous signal reception through two orthogonally polarized channels.

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  1. Dino Giuli
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  1. UIC-EECS/CSL, M/C 154, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL, 60607-7018, USA

    W.-M. Boerner

  2. Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA

    H. Überall

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Giuli, D. (1994). Radar Polarimetry: Applications to Radar Systems. In: Boerner, WM., Überall, H. (eds) Radar Target Imaging. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85112-4_2

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