polarimetry
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It is catalogued under topics including Optical metrology and Polarization (waves).
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thumb|right|upright|Synthetic aperture radar image of [[Death Valley colored using polarimetry.]]
Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is done on electromagnetic waves that have traveled through or have been reflected, refracted or diffracted by some material in order to characterize that object.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “polarimetry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.