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Polarization is a property specific to electromagnetic waves, which is not found in other types of radiation such as acoustic waves. At the beginning of the development of HF and VHF Systems this property received little attention.
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Huynen, J.R., ‘Phenomenological theory of radar targets’, Chapter 11 of Electromagnetic Scattering, P.L. Uslenghi (ed.), Academic Press, New York, 1978.
Ulaby, F. T. and Elachi, C. (eds), Radar Polarimetry for Geoscience Applications, Artech House, Dedham, MA, 1990.
Proceedings of the 16th ESA Workshop on Dual Polarization Antennas, 8–9 June 1993, ESTEC, ESA Scientific & Technical Publications Branch, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Note also the series of Conferences on radar polarimetry organized at IRESTE, Nantes, France, entitled Journees Internationales de la Polarimetrie Radar.
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Drabowitch, S., Papiernik, A., Griffiths, H.D., Encinas, J., Smith, B.L. (2005). Fundamentals of polarimetry. In: Modern Antennas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-26231-4_13
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