(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:... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Nick Shuley
