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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2010.21.9.955

A Study of T/R Module Output Compensation Method for Active Synthetic Aperture Radar  

Yi, Dong-Woo (Agency for Defense Development)
Lee, Jong-Hwan (Agency for Defense Development)
Kim, Se-Young (Agency for Defense Development)
Jeon, Byoung-Tae (Agency for Defense Development)
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Abstract
In this paper, a compensation method of the amplitude and phase errors from the T/R(Transmit/Receive) modules in an active SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) system is introduced. The errors are defined and classified, and characterized by analyzing the measurement data acquired from the pilot test. To compensate these errors, a control methodology of T/R modules output is proposed. Before the compensation is applied, 16 T/R modules integrated on the active SAR antenna show the amplitude in 28.2~29.0 dBm and the phase in $101.7^{\circ}{\sim}165.2^{\circ}$. After the compensation, the amplitude and phase are distributed in 27.4~28.0 dBm and $116.1^{\circ}{\sim}120.0^{\circ}$ respectively. The antenna beam patterns generated by the array theory with the distributions are compared, and the proposed method is verified as good to apply for the active SAR system.
Keywords
Active Phased Array; T/R Module; Compensation; SAR;
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