WISIP Conference Part I: Wideband Polarimetry. An Introduction of Keynote and Invited Papers with Overview of Sessions

Wolfgang-Martin Boerner; Harold Mott

doi:10.1117/12.300629

23 December 1997 WISIP Conference Part I: Wideband Polarimetry. An Introduction of Keynote and Invited Papers with Overview of Sessions

Wolfgang-Martin Boerner, Harold Mott

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Proceedings Volume 3120, Wideband Interferometric Sensing and Imaging Polarimetry; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.300629
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

WISIP: Wideband QiHz -PHz) Interferometric Sensing and Imaging Polarimetry has become an indispensable tool for wide area military battlespace surveillance and global geo/eco-environmental stress change monitoring of the terrestrial and planetary covers. It enables dynamic, real-time optimal feature extraction of significant characteristics of desirable targets and/or target sections with simultaneous suppression of undesirable background clutter and propagation path speckle at hitherto unknown clarity and never-before-achieved quality. WISIP may be adapted to the Detection, Recognition and Identification (DRI) of any stationary, moving or vibrating target or distributed scatterer segments versus arbitrary stationary, dynamically changing and/or moving geo-physical/ecological environments, provided the instantaneous 2x2 phasor (Jones/Sinclair) and 4x4 powerdensity (Mueller/Kennaugh) matrices for forward-propagation/backward-scattering, respectively, can be measured with sufficient accuracy. For example, the DRT of stealthy, dynamically moving and/or camouflaged stationary objects occluded deeply into heterogeneous stationary and/or dynamically moving inhomogeneous volumetric scatter environments such as precipitation scatter, the ocean sea/lake surface boundary layers, the littoral coastal surf zones, pack-ice and snow or vegetative canopies, dry sands and soils, etc., can now be successfully realized

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Wolfgang-Martin Boerner and Harold Mott "WISIP Conference Part I: Wideband Polarimetry. An Introduction of Keynote and Invited Papers with Overview of Sessions", Proc. SPIE 3120, Wideband Interferometric Sensing and Imaging Polarimetry, (23 December 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.300629

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