Polarization-Based Method for Object Surface Orientation Information in Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging

Surface orientation information is essential to depicting the 3-D structure of an object. This paper analyzes the linear polarization characteristics of several typical objects by simulations and measurements. Then, a polarization-based method is presented to acquire the object surface orientation information from three different linear polarization brightness temperature images by using a 94-GHz imaging radiometer. The experiments are conducted outside, where a wooden plate is placed obliquely on a metal box. Experimental results indicate that our method is capable of achieving the surface orientation information that is beneficial to recognizing the object. This method suggests possible applications for terrain models and object detections.

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