Active Polarimetric Measurements for Identification and Characterization of Space Debris

A bench-top polarimeter ( λ = 1064 nm) is used to measure the polarimetric Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) of several common spacecraft materials in both bistatic and monostatic geometries. The Mueller matrix and polarimetric properties of each material were estimated as a fun...

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Main Authors: Pasqual, M. C. (Author), Cahoy, K. L. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-04-16T20:44:04Z.
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