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

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 …

A measure of the degree of polarization for the three-dimensional polarization matrix
(coherence matrix) of an electromagnetic field is proposed, based on Rayleigh scattering …

Linearly polarized light backscattered from weakly scattering slabs in the cross-polarized
channel manifests a symmetrical pattern. The origin and the properties of the pattern are …

This thesis is concerned with the development of a general theory for the characterisation of
polarimetric scattering problems. Traditionally, two main approaches have been used in the …

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

A simple new method is introduced to analyze the polarization of light by media. This
method decomposes a Jones matrix into a linear combination of four basic matrices that …

We formulate a quantitative description of backscattered linearly polarized light with an
extended photon diffusion formalism taking explicitly into account the scattering anisotropy …

Despite the virtues of Jones and Mueller formalisms for the representation of the polarimetric
properties, for some purposes in both Optics and SAR Polarimetry, the concept of coherency …

By invoking ideas about the distribution of the optical paths of partial components of the
scattered field, we obtain an expression for estimating the degree of residual polarization of …