Technique for Huynen–Euler decomposition. Issue 13 (2nd June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dallmann, T.; Heberling, D.
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 53:Issue 13(2017)
• Page Start: 877
• Page End: 879
• Publication Date: 2017-06-02
• Subjects: radar polarimetry -- electromagnetic wave scattering -- S‐matrix theory -- Monte Carlo methods; Huynen‐Euler decomposition -- Huynen–Euler parameter extraction -- polarimetric scattering matrix -- Monte Carlo simulation -- floating point accuracy; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2017.1597
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : We describe a novel approach to extract Huynen–Euler parameters from a polarimetric scattering matrix. In contrast to existing methods, this technique is able to determine the full set of parameters while requiring the handling of only four special cases via case distinction. Results from a Monte‐Carlo simulation show that the maximum error caused by the decomposition is close to floating point accuracy.