The work reported in this paper was carried out under an ESA contract (15600/01/I-LG) with the purpose of demonstrating the potential of polarimetric SAR compared with single-polarization data for some key application areas to support the decisions on future satellite SAR systems. Three key application areas were identified (a) SAR polarimetry for agriculture classification, (b) SAR polarimetry...

Received ; accepted – 2 – ABSTRACT Linearly polarized, non-masing, rotational lines have been detected for the first time in the interstellar medium. This effect occurs in molecular clouds with a magnetic field, and traces the field direction, offering an alternative technique to dust emission polarimetry. The line polarization mechanism is similar to that in masers, but with lower degrees of p...

We present 11.1 to 37.1 μm imaging observations of the very dense molecular cloud core MM1 in G034.43+00.24 using FORCAST on SOFIA and submillimeter (submm) polarimetry using SHARP on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. We find that at the spatial resolution of SOFIA, the point-spread function (PSF) of MM1 is consistent with being a single source, as expected based on millimeter (mm) and sub...

Launched on 2021 December 9, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Mission in collaboration with Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission will open new window of investigation—imaging x-ray polarimetry. observatory features three identical telescopes, each consisting mirror module assembly polarization-sensitive imaging detector at focus. A coilable boom, deployed orbit, ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the birefringence properties of eyes with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). To compare the information from two techniques--scanning laser polarimetry (GDx) and polarization-sensitive spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT)--and investigate how they complement each other. METHODS The authors prospectively examined the eyes of two healthy subjects and 13 pa...

Due to the absence of hadronization effects and the large mt mass, top quark decay will be uniquely sensitive to fundamental electroweak physics at the Tevatron, at the LHC, and at a future linear collider. A “complete measurement” of the four helicity amplitudes in t → W+b decay is possible by the combined use of Λb and W polarimetry in stage-two spincorrelation functions (S2SC). In this paper...

We have proposed an optical probe that can be used to characterize the orientation of collagen fibers in human dermis. A specific probing ability for collagen results from the use of second-harmonic-generation (SHG) light induced by collagen molecules in the tissue. Based on the concept of collagen SHG light, a reflection-type polarization measurement system (named SHG polarimetry) with a probe...

purpose : to evaluate the correlations between visual field (vf) defects with retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) thickness in nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (naion) eyes, compare different gdx parameters with the other healthy contralateral eyes, and calculate receiver operating characteristic (roc) curve for the gdx parameters methods : eighteen patients with unilateral naion fr...