title: Review of passive imaging polarimetry for remote sensing applications.
abstract: Imaging polarimetry has emerged over the past three decades as a powerful tool to enhance the information available in a variety of remote sensing applications. We discuss the foundations of passive imaging polarimetry, the phenomenological reasons for designing a polarimetric sensor, and the primary architectures that have been exploited for developing imaging polarimeters. Considerations on imaging polarimeters such as calibration, optimization, and error performance are also discussed. We review many important sources and examples from the scientific literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. tyo@ieee.org
authors.forename: J Scott
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Tyo
authors.forename: Dennis L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Chenault
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Shaw