In recent decades, most methods proposed for radiometric slope correction involved the backscattering intensity values in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. However, these methods are not fully applicable to quad-polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) matrix data. In this paper, we propose a three-step semi-empirical radiometric terrain correction approach for PolSAR forest area data. The three steps of t...

Near-infrared (NIR) and optical polarimetric observations of a selection of X-ray binaries are presented. The targets were observed using the Very Large Telescope and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. We detect a significant level (3σ) of linear polarisation in four sources. The polarisation is found to be intrinsic (at the > 3σ level) in two sources; GRO J1655–40 (∼ 4–7% in H and Ks-bands...

At the ILC, the overall scheme for a precise measurement of the beam polarisation conists in the usage of two Compton polarimeters per beam (upand downstream of the e+e− interaction point) and a polarisation measurement from annihilation data [1, 2] to set the absolute scale. The two upand downstream polarimeters are complementary, add redundancy and are used to intercalibrate the systems and r...

Abstract Silicone rubber (SR) is widely used for cable insulation and operates in multi‐stress coupling conditions. Its dielectric properties ageing performance are the essential factors affecting operation. In this study, frequency domain spectroscopy of unaged SR aged under various conditions measured. The responses before after analysed depth by conjoint analysis via multiple complex planes ...

Recent studies have highlighted a polarisation in the distribution of work during the 1980s, and some have conjectured that this polarisation has been a principal cause of the rise in income inequality. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we document the pattern of work polarisation during the first half of the 1990s and show that polarisation was not mainly responsible for inco...

Recently, photonic crystals doped with liquid crystal (LC) material havegained much research interest. In this article new ternary one-dimensional photoniccrystal introduced and studied. The liquid crystal layer of 5CB and 5PCH is sandwichedby two dielectric layers. For the first time, we use four structures SiO2/UCF35/CaF2,SiO2/5CB/CaF2, NFK51/UCF35/NPSK53 and NFK51/5CB/NPSK53. The effect ofte...

SCIAMACHY (SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY) is one of the Earth observation research instruments to be included as part of the payload of the ESA (European Space Agency) ENVISAT-1 platform to be launched in the year 2000. The main scientific objective of SCIAMACHY is to measure distributions of a number of chemically important atmospheric trace species on a...

We construct the full linearisation functor which takes a graded bundle of degree k (a particular kind of graded manifold) and produces a k-fold vector bundle. We fully characterise the image of the full linearisation functor and show that we obtain a subcategory of k-fold vector bundles consisting of symmetric k-fold vector bundles equipped with a family of morphisms indexed by the symmetric g...