DocumentCode
2679637
Title
Degree of polarization for weather radars
Author
Galletti, Michele ; Chandra, Madhu ; Börner, Thomas ; Bebbington, David Henry Oliver
Author_Institution
DLR - German Aerosp. Agency, Oberpfaffenhofen
fYear
2007
fDate
23-28 July 2007
Firstpage
4187
Lastpage
4190
Abstract
Future operational weather radars are likely to implement hybrid polarization, an operating mode that involves transmitting 45deg slant polarization and receiving the horizontal and vertical components of the backscattered field. In this work, the degree of polarization at slant send is theoretically considered and experimentally evaluated from fully polarimetric signatures in order to assess its potential for use in next generation operational weather radars.
Keywords
atmospheric techniques; backscatter; meteorological radar; radar polarimetry; backscattering; hybrid polarization; operational weather radars; polarimetric signature; polarization degree; slant polarization; Entropy; Matrix decomposition; Meteorological radar; Mirrors; Polarization; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Radar signal processing; Switched systems; Switches; Degree of Polarization; Depolarisation Response; Instantaneous Scattering Matrix; Scattering Matrix;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International
Conference_Location
Barcelona
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1211-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1212-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423773
Filename
4423773
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