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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2010.21.4.408

Study on the Calibration of a Full-Polarimetric Scatterometer System at X-band  

Hwang, Ji-Hwan (Electronic Information and Communication Engineering)
Park, Seong-Min (Electronic Information and Communication Engineering)
Kwon, Soon-Gu (Electronic Information and Communication Engineering)
Oh, Yi-Sok (Electronic Information and Communication Engineering)
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Abstract
A study on the calibration of an X-band HPS(Hongik Polarimetric Scatterometer) system for ground-based operation is presented in this paper. In order to calibrate the scatterometer system, the degree of its distortions are analyzed by comparison between theoretical- and measured-values using the theoretically well-known calibration targets such as a metal sphere, a trihedral corner reflector(CR) and a metal cylinder. The calibration works in the field conditions depend on the precise and stable measurements of those calibration target. we present a measurement technique, so-called, an automatic 2-D target-scanning technique, using the incidence-angle(${\xi}-$ and ${\phi}-$ directions) control of HPS system. Then, we used STCT(Single-Target Calibration Technique) and GCT(General Calibration Technique) to calibrate a distortion of the scatterometer system, and measured the polarimetric RCS(Radar Cross Section) and phase-difference of a trihedral-CR as a test-target to verify the accuracy of the calibration technique. Then, three different types(i.e., 10, 20, 30 cm) of trihedral-CR were used. we obtained the error ranges about ${\pm}1.0$dB, ${\pm}0.5$ dB in a polarimetric RCS and about $-20^{\circ}{\sim}0^{\circ}$ and ${\pm}5^{\circ}$ in the co-polarized phase-difference by using the GCT and STCT, respectively.
Keywords
Calibration; Distortion; HPS; RCS; Full-Polarimetric Data;
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