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Airborne SAR radiometric calibration using point targets

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, , Citation Feng Zongmin et al 2014 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 17 012186 DOI 10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012186

1755-1315/17/1/012186

Abstract

The trihedral corner reflector, with high stability, large RCS and little change within a wide angle range, is widely used in SAR radiometric calibration. Results from airborne SAR overflights of corner reflectors are utilized to compute calibration constant, transfer function of the system and backscattering coefficient of different targets. The key step of SAR calibration is the derivation of calibration constant. In this paper, we used two methods, the peak and integral method, to compute the calibration constant. Through real flight data, we found that, using point target for SAR calibration is simple and practicable.

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10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012186