CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF REAL OBJECTS AND THE HUYNEN PARAMETERS

This paper presents an approach to classify real objects, using polarimetric radar data, on the basis of the Huynen parameters (HUYNEN, 1970). For this purpose a computer pro- gram was developed to calculate and display the Huynen parameters from the polarimetric scattering matrix S, which is measured over a wide frequency range. It is demonstrated here that the Huynen theory is correct and applicable to electromagnetic inverse scattering problems to derive target classification operators.