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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2007.23.6.501

Design of Omni-directional Reflector for Synthetic Aperture Radar  

Chang, Geba (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
Oh, Yi-Sok (Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Hongik University)
Yang, Chan-Su (Ocean Satellite Research Group, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.23, no.6, 2007 , pp. 501-506 More about this Journal
Abstract
Basic research is conducted to identify a target using corner reflectors which are commonly used in calibration of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. At first, an omni-directional reflector is fabricated by combining four 15-cm rectangular trihedral corner reflectors. Then, its radar cross section (RCS) characteristics are measured at C-band (5.3 GHz) for vv-, hh-, hv-, and vh- polarizations at a range of horizontal angle, $-90^{\circ}{\le}{\phi}{\le}90^{\circ}$. The measured RCS angular variation of the omni-directional reflector is much smaller for vv-polarization than other polarizations, and the difference between the maximum and minimum RCSs for vv-polarization is about 8 dB. Peak RCS values are shown at $0^{\circ}$ (normal to plates) and $45^{\circ}$ (direction of bore sight). It is shown that the measurements agree quite well with numerical simulation and theoretical computation results.
Keywords
Omni-directional reflector; radar cross section; rectangular trihedral corner reflector; synthetic aperture radar;
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