ABSTRACT

In the previous chapters in this section of the book, we have covered basic manual polarimetry techniques and a variety of polarimetry schemes that are best suited to be implemented with automated systems. To this point, we have been concerned with a single signal and how we can collect and process polarimetric information. In remote sensing, we very often would like to have imagery because this is how we perceive the world, and because we would like to compare the polarization characteristics of different points in an image to differentiate materials and textures. In this chapter, we give an overview of imaging polarimetry.