Direct and Inverse Methods in Radar Polarimetry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiv

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2. Opening Remarks and Overviews

   1. Historical Development of Radar Polarimetry, Incentives for This Workshop, and Overview of Contributions to These Proceedings

      • Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

      Pages 1-32

   2. Polarization in Nature

      • Günther P. Können

      Pages 33-44

   3. Review of Past and Current Research in the USSR on the Fundamentals and Basics of Radar Polarimetry and High Resolution Radar Imaging

      • Anatolij I. Kozlov, Aleksander I. Logvin, Lev A. Zhivotovsky

      Pages 45-59

   4. Applying the Polarization Selection Techniques to Meteorologic and Oceanographic Radar Remote Sensing (Review of Soviet Studies)

      • Dimitrij B. Kanareykin, Boris Sh. Lande, Yurij A. Melnik, Aleksander V. Ryzhkov, Vladimir D. Stepanenko, Sergeij Yu. Matrosov et al.

      Pages 61-83

   5. Meteorologic Radar Polarimetry in North America During 1950–1991

      • Eugene A. Mueller, Venkatachalam Chandrasekar

      Pages 85-97

   6. Comparison of Fundamental Approaches to Radar Polarimetry

      • Zbigniew H. Czyż

      Pages 99-116

3. Basic Polarimetric Radar Theory

   1. Definitions of Polarization in Radar

      • Harold Mott

      Pages 117-153

   2. Basic Concepts of Radar Polarimetry

      • Wolfgang-M. Boerner, Wei-Ling Yan, An-Qing Xi, Yoshio Yamaguchi

      Pages 155-245

   3. An Alternative Approach to Foundations of Radar Polarimetry

      • Zbigniew H. Czyż

      Pages 247-266

   4. Uniqueness of Target Decomposition Theorems in Radar Polarimetry

      • S. R. Cloude

      Pages 267-296

   5. Determination of the Characteristic Polarization States of the Radar Target Scattering Matrix [S(AB)] for the Coherent, Monostatic and Reciprocal Propagation Space Using the Polarization Ratio ρ Transformation Formulation

      • An-Qing Xi, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

      Pages 297-349

   6. Optimal Polarization States Determination of the Stokes Reflection Matrices \(\left[ {{{\bar M}_p}} \right]\) for the Coherent Case, and of the Mueller Matrix [M] for the Partially Polarized Case

      • Wei-Ling Yan, Wolfgang-Martin Boerner

      Pages 351-385

   7. Comments on Target Decomposition Theorems

      • J. Richard Huynen

      Pages 387-399

   8. T-Pulse for Exciting Single Modes of Radar Targets

      • Yingbo Hua, Ercument Arvas, Tapan K. Sarkar

      Pages 401-425

   9. SEM and EEM Scattering Matrices, and Time-Domain Scatterer Polarization in the Scattering Residue Matrix

      • Carl E. Baum

      Pages 427-486

   10. Transient Polarization

       • Neil F. Chamberlain

       Pages 487-501

4. Polarimetric Scattering Theories

   1. Physical Optics Polarization Correction of Backscattering From Conducting Smooth Surfaces

      • Alon Schatzberg

      Pages 503-516

   2. Polarization Correction and Extension of the Kennaugh-Cosgriff Target-Ramp Response Equation to the Bi-Static Case and Applications to Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering

      • Bing-Yuen Foo, Sujeet K. Chaudhuri, Wolfgang-M. Boerner

      Pages 517-535

   3. Interpretation of the Physical Optics Approximation in the Time Domain for the Bistatic Case

      • Edward Morton Kennaugh

      Pages 537-544

This foreword deals exclusively with the planning, organization, and execution of the Workshop's scientific as well as cultural programs. It is opened with a synopsis on how the global political changes that occurred immediately after the Workshop caused the ~elay in producing the proceedings, followed by a brief exposition on need, timeliness, and importance of this second ARW in the field of electromagnetic imaging, radar remote sensing, and target versus clutter di~rimination; and an outline of the objectives. An informal discussion about some of the organizational details, a retrospective summary of events, and a preview of the third workshop, planned for 1993 September 19-25, is intended to recapture the spirit of this second NATO Advanced Research Workshop (1988 September 18-24), and will reveal how successful it was in compar­ ison to the first of 1983 September 18-24, how its accomplishments may be appreciated and why a third and last workshop was requested by its participants to take place during 1993 September 19-25.

• design
• environment
• meteorology
• polarization
• radar
• remote sensing
• scattering
• signal
• signal processing
• tomography

• Communications & Sensing Laboratory, EECS Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

  Wolfgang-M. Boerner

• High-Frequency Engineering Laboratories, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

  Hans Brand

• Thorn EMI, Electronics Ltd., UK

  Leonard A. Cram

• GTRI-RAIL/MAL, Atlanta, USA

  William A. Holm

• Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, USA

  David E. Stein

• IHE, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Werner Wiesbeck

• Institute for Radio-Frequency Technology, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

  Wolfgang Keydel

• Radar Research Laboratory, Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Florence, Italy

  Dino Giuli

• ESTP, Royal Norwegian Council of Industrial & Scientific Research, Kjeller, Norway

  Dag T. Gjessing

• Société Mothesim, Le Plessis-Robinson, France

  Frédéric A. Molinet

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