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Distribution of the Received Voltage's Phases in the Cross-Polarized Channel Case

Jian YANG, Yingning PENG, Yoshio YAMAGUCHI, Wolfgang-Martin BOERNER

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The concept of the equi-phase curve is introduced for the cross-polarized channel case. It is proved that the equi-phase curves are a series of half circles on the Poincare sphere, and that all these curves have two common ends. Based on the introduced concept, this letter demonstrates the distribution of the received voltage's phases on the Poincare sphere. In addition, it is shown theoretically that the cross-polarized phase of the off-diagonal elements of a scattering matrix is unstable for most natural targets. Therefore, the cross-polarized phase information cannot be used for extracting target characteristics in polarimetric radar remote sensing.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E85-B No.6 pp.1223-1226
Publication Date
2002/06/01
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Type of Manuscript
LETTER
Category
Sensing

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