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Course description

(Offered on an occasional basis.) Physical fundamentals, energy sources for remote sensing, review of physical properties of EM waves, polarisation, coherence, radiation laws, beamwidth resolution, propagation media characteristics. Polarimetry: Poincare sphere, Stokes vectors, partial polarization, scattering matrix, covariance matrix, optimal polarisations, polarimetric decompositions and their physical meanings. Real world Sensing: scattering, reflection and emission mechanisms from real surfaces, roughness, speckle, SAR principle, parameters, resolution, imaging, correcting and calibrating radar imagery. Infometric and Topographic SAR. Radar image interpretation. Radar hardware: antennas, receivers, noise and sensitivity, system performance, calibration.