Reflective and Polarimetric Characteristics of Urban Materials

Abstract

A spectropolarimetric reflectometer is used to measure the monostatic bidirectional reflectance distribution function (mBRDF) and the complete Mueller matrix of a number of urban type materials over a broad spectral region. Derivative features from these measurements are computed and stochastic models of each material are constructed. The models are then used to generate data for separability studies by implementation of a kernel-based linear discriminant classification technique. The purpose for this study, selection of materials, measurements process, analysis techniques, and concluding results are all presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA456099

Entities

People

  • Dennis H. Goldstein
  • Douglas G. Jones
  • Jonathan C. Spaulding

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Classification
  • Detectors
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Polarimeters
  • Recognition
  • Reflectance
  • Supervised Machine Learning

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  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Spectroscopy.