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This chapter briefly discusses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging principles and the theory of SAR polarimetry. The descriptions of several polarimetric parameters and their expressions are presented in this chapter. SAR imaging principles are introduced, followed by the description of wave and polarimetric scattering concepts. Several polarimetric target decomposition techniques for different polarimetric modes are presented in detail. A section is devoted to a brief description of useful SAR missions, particularly for agriculture applications.

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    Dipankar Mandal, Avik Bhattacharya & Yalamanchili Subrahmanyeswara Rao

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Mandal, D., Bhattacharya, A., Rao, Y.S. (2021). Basic Theory of Radar Polarimetry. In: Radar Remote Sensing for Crop Biophysical Parameter Estimation. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4424-5_2

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