Bistatic Radar Polarimetry - Theory & Principles

Chapter titles are ...(1) Introduction ...(2) Radar Polarimetry ...(3) Polarization of Monochromatic Plane Waves ...(4) Polarization Sphere of Tangential Phasors...(5) Rotation Transformation on the Sphere ...(6) Change of Phase, Orthogonality and Spatial Reversal Transformation on the Sphere ...(7) Scattering and Propagation Matrices ...(8) The Poincare Sphere Analysis ...(9) Poincare Sphere Geometrical Model of the Scattering Matrix ...(10) Special Polarizations of the Bistatic Scattering Matrix ...(11) Constant Received Power Curves on the Poincare Sphere ...(12) The Basis-Invariant Decompositions of the Sinclair Matrix ...(13) Decomposition of the Partially Depolarizing Kennaugh Matrix into Four Non-Depolarizing Components ...(14) The Polarimetric Two-Ports ...(15) The Four-Sphere of Partial Polarization and Its Applications ...(16) Appendices.