Valuations were introduced in De Bruyn andVandecasteele (Valuations of near polygons, preprint, 2004) as a very important tool for classifying near polygons. In the present paperwe study valuations of dual polar spaces.Wewill introduce the class of theSDPS-valuations and characterize these valuations. We will show that a valuation of a finite thick dual polar space is the extension of an SDPS-v...
