This foreword deals exclusively with the planning, organization, and execution of the Workshop's scientific as well as cultural programs. It is opened with a synopsis on how the global political changes that occurred immediately after the Workshop caused the ~elay in producing the proceedings, followed by a brief exposition on need, timeliness, and importance of this second ARW in the field of electromagnetic imaging, radar remote sensing, and target versus clutter di~rimination; and an outline of the objectives. An informal discussion about some of the organizational details, a retrospective summary of events, and a preview of the third workshop, planned for 1993 September 19-25, is intended to recapture the spirit of this second NATO Advanced Research Workshop (1988 September 18-24), and will reveal how successful it was in compar ison to the first of 1983 September 18-24, how its accomplishments may be appreciated and why a third and last workshop was requested by its participants to take place during 1993 September 19-25.
Communications & Sensing Laboratory, EECS Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Wolfgang-M. Boerner
High-Frequency Engineering Laboratories, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Hans Brand
Thorn EMI, Electronics Ltd., UK
Leonard A. Cram
GTRI-RAIL/MAL, Atlanta, USA
William A. Holm
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, USA
David E. Stein
IHE, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Werner Wiesbeck
Institute for Radio-Frequency Technology, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Wolfgang Keydel
Radar Research Laboratory, Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Florence, Italy
Dino Giuli
ESTP, Royal Norwegian Council of Industrial & Scientific Research, Kjeller, Norway
Dag T. Gjessing
Société Mothesim, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
Frédéric A. Molinet
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Direct and Inverse Methods in Radar Polarimetry
Editors: Wolfgang-M. Boerner, Hans Brand, Leonard A. Cram, William A. Holm, David E. Stein, Werner Wiesbeck, Wolfgang Keydel, Dino Giuli, Dag T. Gjessing, … Frédéric A. Molinet