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This volume addresses the fundamental physical bases of sensing and information extraction in state-of-the-art automatic target recognition systems. The physical basis of sensing light and its properties of intensity, coherence, and wavelength are discussed elsewhere in this book. In this chapter, another property of light, polarization, will be described. All light, natural or man-made, is polarized to some degree. Light from a target contains information in its polarization state. Often this information relates to the three-dimensional shape of the target and is independent of the intensity and wavelengths radiated. Intensity and wavelengths can vary with the illumination source, the temperature of the target, and the surface coating on the target. However, for most cases of interest the three-dimensional shape of the target will remain unchanged.
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Chun, C.S. (2007). The Physics of Polarization-Sensitive Optical Imaging. In: Sadjadi, F., Javidi, B. (eds) Physics of Automatic Target Recognition. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36943-3_6
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