Target-to-clutter contrast enhancement using radar Doppler polarimetry

The connection between Doppler and polarimetric characteristics of targets is studied. It is shown that the Doppler polarimetric formalism provides more complete radar object description. These conclusions are supported by the model of simple compound object as well as by the radar observations of ground clutter. It is also shown that the clutter suppression which is based on Doppler polarimetric object description gives better contrast enhancement than the polarimetric optimization techniques.