This contribution is concerned with the polarimetric characterization of monostatic
backscattering and anti-monostatic forward scattering (transmission) described by …

In the normal incidence backscattering configuration, a polarimetric measurement always
preserves the reciprocal symmetry. For a reciprocal Jones matrix, the number of elementary …

This contribution is concerned with the theory of optical and radar polarimetry dealing with
forward (transmission) and backscatter polarimetric scattering. Characteristic similarities and …

The Sinclair and Kennaugh matrices are widely used in the remote sensing discipline for
signals detected in the backward direction. The connections between the Jones matrix and …

This contribution is concerned with coherent polarimetric bistatic scattering of plane
electromagnetic waves from deterministic radar targets. The Huynen fork descriptor for the …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the polarimetry in electromagnetic wave
scattering. It has identified three levels of development of the subject. In the first stage …

In this paper we revisit the condiagonalization of the Sinclair backscattering matrix, to
overcome the Huynen decomposition issues, so as to correctly extract scatterer polarimetric …

Depolarization has been found to be a useful contrast mechanism in biological and medical
imaging. The Mueller matrix can be used to describe polarization effects of a depolarizing …

To define the characteristic polarisation points of scattering matrices on the Poincare sphere
and to arrive at their interesting features, a basic approach to the foundations of polarimetry …

This chapter describes approaches to understanding the physics of the interaction of
polarized beams with natural scenes and to searching for informative and useful polarimetric …