Analysis of Dual-Polarimetric Radar Measurements Collected in a Controlled Environment

Abstract

This study aims at developing a controlled measurement environment where testing methods to extract information from polarimetric radar measurements of selected targets. The environment is based on the anechoic chamber of Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope (UNP) that is equipped with a transmitting antenna and a couple of receiving antennas that are designed to measure co- and cross-polarized waves scattered off the target according to a linear h-v basis. In this abstract, both an incoherent and a coherent analyses are undertaken with the latter exploiting Stokes parameters and eigenvalue decomposition.