A method of decomposing the polarization scattering matrix into parts corresponding to non-reciprocal, asymmetric and symmetric scatterers is presented. The decomposition is used to classify scattering matrices into one of eleven classes. The decomposition and classification scheme is applied to fully polarimetric, millimeter wave measurement data. Results are shown for a simple array of scatterers and for a truck.
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