Polarisation : applications in remote sensing / S.R. Cloude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cloude, Shane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electromagnetic waves--Scattering.

Electromagnetic waves.

Polarimetric remote sensing.

Interferometry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Polarization

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this monograph S.R. Cloude introduces, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry. This topic was first developed in 1997 and has since developed into a major topic in radar sciences and its applications, in particular to space sciences. In its simplest form it concerns the study of interferograms formed by combining waves with different polarizations and their exploitation to infer important physical properties of the planetary surface beinginvestigated.Written in three main sections, the first four chapters provide a detailed coverage of all major topics of pol

Contents:

Contents; 1 Polarised electromagnetic waves; 1.1 The generation of polarised waves; 1.2 The propagation of polarised waves; 1.3 The geometry of polarised waves; 1.4 The scattering of polarised waves; 1.5 Geometry of the scattering matrix; 1.6 The scattering vector formulation; 2 Depolarisation and scattering entropy; 2.1 The wave coherency matrix; 2.2 The Mueller matrix; 2.3 The scattering coherency matrix formulation; 2.4 General theory of scattering entropy; 2.5 Characterization of depolarising systems; 2.6 Relating the Stokes/Mueller and coherency matrix formulations

3 Depolarisation in surface and volume scattering3.1 Introduction to surface scattering; 3.2 Surface depolarisation; 3.3 Introduction to volume scattering; 3.4 Depolarisation in volume scattering; 3.5 Simple physical models for volume scattering and propagation; 4 Decomposition theorems; 4.1 Coherent decomposition theorems; 4.2 Incoherent decomposition theorems; 5 Introduction to radar interferometry; 5.1 Radar interferometry; 5.2 Sources of interferometric decorrelation; 6 Polarimetric interferometry; 6.1 Vector formulation of radar interferometry; 6.2 Coherence optimization

7 The coherence of surface and volume scattering7.1 Coherence loci for surface scattering; 7.2 Coherence loci for random volume scattering; 7.3 The coherence loci for a two-layer scattering model; 7.4 Important special cases: RVOG, IWCM and OVOG; 8 Parameter estimation using polarimetric interferometry; 8.1 Surface topography estimation; 8.2 Estimation of height h[sub(v)]; 8.3 Hidden surface/target imaging; 8.4 Structure estimation: extinction and Legendre parameters; 9 Applications of polarimetry and interferometry; 9.1 Radar imaging; 9.2 Imaging interferometry: InSAR

9.3 Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR)9.4 Polarimetric SAR interferometry (POLInSAR); 9.5 Applications of polarimetry and interferometry; Appendix 1 Introduction to matrix algebra; Appendix 2 Unitary and rotation groups; Appendix 3 Coherent stochastic signal analysis; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [435[-449) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-158038-4

0-19-871997-3

0-19-157438-4

9786612402739

1-282-40273-0

OCLC:

536309515