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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
卷 60, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3121466
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Calibration; Spaceborne radar; Radar; Radar polarimetry; Radar antennas; Receiving antennas; Geometry; Active radar calibrator; bistatic radar; polarimetric calibration; real-aperture radar
This article presents the bistatic operation mode and performance analysis of KAPRI, a terrestrial radar interferometer capable of acquiring bistatic full-polarimetric datasets. The article also introduces methods for correcting clock offsets and distortions, as well as a device and method for polarimetric calibration. These techniques enable synchronization, coregistration, and polarimetric calibration of bistatic and monostatic datasets.
This article presents the bistatic operation mode and the performance analysis of KAPRI, a terrestrial frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) Ku-band polarimetric radar interferometer capable of acquiring bistatic full-polarimetric datasets with high spatial and temporal resolution. In the bistatic configuration, the system is composed of two independently operating KAPRI devices, one serving as a primary transmitter and receiver and the other as a secondary receiver. The secondary bistatic dataset is affected by possible offsets between the two devices' reference clocks, as well as distortions arising from the bistatic geometry. To correct for this, we present a two-chirp bistatic FMCW signal model, which accounts for the distortions, and a reference chirp transmission procedure, which allows correcting the clock offsets in the deramped signal time domain. The second challenge of operation of a bistatic polarimetric system is polarimetric calibration since it is not possible to employ purely monostatic targets such as corner reflectors. For this purpose, we developed a novel active calibration device Variable-Signature Polarimetric Active Radar Calibrator (VSPARC), designed for monostatic and bistatic calibration of all polarimetric channels. VSPARC and its associated novel polarimetric calibration method were then used to achieve full calibration of both KAPRI devices with polarimetric phase calibration accuracy of 20 degrees and 30-dB polarization purity in field conditions. This article thus presents a complete measurement configuration and data processing pipeline necessary for synchronization, coregistration, and polarimetric calibration of bistatic and monostatic datasets acquired by a real-aperture FMCW radar.
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