A new polarimetric active radar calibrator and calibration technique

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Abstract

Polarimetric active radar calibrator (PARC) is one of the most important calibrators with high radar cross section (RCS) for polarimetry measurement. In this paper, a new double-antenna polarimetric active radar calibrator (DPARC) is proposed, which consists of two rotatable antennas with wideband electromagnetic polarization filters (EMPF) to achieve lower cross-polarization for transmission and reception. With two antennas which are rotatable around the radar line of sight (LOS), the DPARC provides a variety of standard polarimetric scattering matrices (PSM) through the rotation combination of receiving and transmitting polarization, which are useful for polarimatric calibration in different applications. In addition, a technique based on Fourier analysis is proposed for calibration processing. Numerical simulation results are presented to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed DPARC and processing technique.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXI
EditorsLorenzo Bruzzone
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781628418538
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
EventImage and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXI - Toulouse, France
Duration: 21 Sep 201523 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9643
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceImage and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXI
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period21/09/1523/09/15

Keywords

  • Fourier analysis
  • Polarimetric active radar calibrator (PARC)
  • calibration
  • polarimetric

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