M. Fujita et al., POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION OF THE SIR-C C-BAND CHANNEL USING ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATORS AND POLARIZATION-SELECTIVE DIHEDRALS, IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 36(6), 1998, pp. 1872-1878
A polarimetric calibration experiment of Shuttle Imaging Radar C (SIR-
C) is carried out using several different calibration targets. These a
re C-band polarimetric active radar calibrators (PARC's), polarization
selective dihedrals (PSD's), 22.5 degrees rotated dihedrals, and a tr
ihedral, A novel polarimetric calibration algorithm is proposed that c
ombines existing algorithms and uses one PARC and two PSD's, An error
evaluation example is shown to estimate the typical hardware error val
ue of the calibration targets allowable for a given calibration error,
The novel algorithm gives polarimetric calibration results comparable
to those obtained using the existing algorithm for three PARC's. Sinc
e PSD's work at frequencies lower than design frequency, and hence can
be commonly used at multiple frequency bands, the simple addition of
just one more frequency band PARC allows polarimetric calibration of a
dual-frequency polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) by means o
f the proposed algorithm.