Phase and amplitude calibration of rotating equispaced circular array for geostationary microwave interferometric radiometers: Simulation results and discussion
In the theoretical part of this work, a calibration strategy for both phase and amplitude calibration of rotating equispaced circular array based on redundant space calibration was introduced. It avoids the challenging implementation of conventional noise-injection networks, especially for a large-s...
| Autores: | , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| 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:2117/354848 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/354848 https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3071144 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Calibration Radiometers Amplitude calibration Circular array Microwave radiometry Phase calibration Redundant baselines Calibratge Radiòmetres Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Teledetecció |
| Sumario: | In the theoretical part of this work, a calibration strategy for both phase and amplitude calibration of rotating equispaced circular array based on redundant space calibration was introduced. It avoids the challenging implementation of conventional noise-injection networks, especially for a large-scale array, by using the strong self-consistency accomplished by array rotation. This study presents comprehensive simulation results of the proposed calibration strategy, where calibration residuals and image reconstruction errors are evaluated. The phase calibration shows outstanding performance, while the amplitude calibration is found to be biased due to the logarithms used to linearize the system of calibration equations, and the resulting image reconstruction bias is scene-dependent. A bias correction method is proposed accordingly, which requires an a priori regional brightness temperature within the observation scene. The performance of both phase and amplitude calibration take advantage of increasing the number of elements, which promises the system scalability for high spatial resolution applications. |
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