Polarimetric Calibration of a Bistatic SAR detector

The polarimetric radars o er the advantage of knowing about properties of target's surface by acquiring information of how the incident electromagnetic energy is scattered respect to orthogonal polarization vectors. Bistatic sensors of opportunity, such as SABRINA, can be adapted to perform pol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Yam Ontiveros, Luis Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2099.1/10460
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/10460
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Synthetic aperture radar
Artificial satellites in telecommunication
Bistatic sensors
Radar d'obertura sintètica
Satèl·lits artificials en telecomunicació
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Radar
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Sumario:The polarimetric radars o er the advantage of knowing about properties of target's surface by acquiring information of how the incident electromagnetic energy is scattered respect to orthogonal polarization vectors. Bistatic sensors of opportunity, such as SABRINA, can be adapted to perform polarimetric measurements if they found an illuminator which transmits pulses with orthogonal polarizations. In such scenario, calibration is required to scale properly the measurements in magnitude and phase in order to be able to interpret the data. In this work, we use the concepts of calibration in the monostatic case to obtain and study a polarimetric calibration based on PARCs for a bistatic sensor of opportunity.