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All Things Geography points to new ESA RADAR polarimetry tutorials. From the introduction: "[...] a wide-ranging tutorial, which aims to provide a grounding in polarimetry and polarimetric interferometry with a view to stimulating research and development of scientific applications that exploit polarimetric data and techniques."
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