Polarimetry for Bionic Geolocation and Navigation Applications: A Review

Polarimetry, which seeks to measure the vectorial information of light modulated by objects, has facilitated bionic geolocation and navigation applications. It is a novel promising field that provides humans with remote sensing tool exploit polarized skylight in similar way polarization-sensitive animals, yet few in-depth reviews exist. Beginning biological inspirations, this review mainly focuses on characterization, measurement, analysis polarimetry for applications, an emphasis Stokes–Mueller formalism. Several recent breakthroughs development trends are summarized paper, potential prospects conjunction some cutting-edge techniques also presented. The goal offer comprehensive overview exploitation applications as well stimulate new explorations field.