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(2006). Fully Polarimetric Scattering of Non-Spherical Scatter Media. In: Theory and Approach of Information Retrievals from Electromagnetic Scattering and Remote Sensing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4030-X_2

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