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Improved trihedral corner reflector for high-precision SAR calibration and validation

  • Yongsheng Zhou
  • , Chuanrong Li
  • , Lingling Ma
  • , Michael Ying Yang
  • , Qi Liu

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Abstract

Trihedral corner reflectors have been widely used as standard point targets for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) calibration. The RCS accuracy of the trihedral corner reflector is vital especially for future high-precision SAR radiometric calibration. In order to reduce the interaction between corner reflector and the ground on which the reflector deployed, and also reduce the edge diffraction through minimizing the panel external edge length, improved trihedral corner reflector was developed and it had smaller edge length than the trihedral corner reflector with the polygonous shape for a given panel area. General expression for the panel area and panel external edge length of arbitrarily self-illuminating corner reflectors was presented by parameter equation firstly. Then the edge of reflector panel was assumed as circular arc and through a numerical approximation approach, improved corner reflector of circular arc panel geometry with smaller edge length was obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2014
Subtitle of host publicationIGARSS 2014
Place of PublicationQuébec City
PublisherIEEE
Pages454-457
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479957750
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Nov 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014: Energy and our Changing Planet - Quebec City Convention Centre, Quebec, Canada
Duration: 13 Jul 201418 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Conference

ConferenceInternational Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2014
Abbreviated titleIGARSS 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec
Period13/07/1418/07/14

Keywords

  • calibration
  • corner reflector
  • RCS
  • SAR

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