The equivalence of Cameron's unit disc and poincaré's sphere for symmetric scattering characterisation and classification

Cameron's Coherent Target Decomposition and classification is able to represent a symmetric scatterer onto a unit disc in the complex plane, and assign it to one of the six symmetrical elemental scatterer classes. Recently, Touzi et al. proposed a variation of Cameron's method by introducing a coherent analysis. Moreover the Poincaré's sphere, was used insted of the unit disc for representing symmetric scattering because it was considered a more suitable domain. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the equivalence of using Poincaré's sphere domain and Cameron's unit disc, in term of characterisation and classification of symmetric scattering types. © 2007 IEEE.