Subsurface polarimetric migration imaging for full polarimetric ground-penetrating radar

Xuan Feng,1,2 Yue Yu,1 Cai Liu1 and Michael Fehler2 1College of Geo-Exploration Science and Technology, Jilin University, No. 938 Xi MinZhu Street, Changchun 130026, China. E-mail: fengxuan@jlu.edu.cn; liucai@jlu.edu.cn 2Earth Resources Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 54-225 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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