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Multi-band Polarization Imaging and Applications

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In remote sensing, imaging instruments measure the energy of the light reflected or radiated from an object of interest in a number of different wavelength bands to observe physical as well as chemical characteristics of the object such as material composition and surface temperature distribution.

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  1. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

    Yongqiang Zhao, Chen Yi, Quan Pan & Yongmei Cheng

  2. Sejong University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Seong G. Kong

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Zhao, Y., Yi, C., Kong, S.G., Pan, Q., Cheng, Y. (2016). Introduction. In: Multi-band Polarization Imaging and Applications. Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49373-1_1

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