Fundamental experiment of a polarization-rotating reflector of van atta array design for polarimetric calibration

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Fujita, Masaharu ^a   Okubo, Hisashi ^a   Fujino, Yoshiyuki ^b   Tanaka, Masato ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calibration target; Dual polarization; Polarimetry; Radar calibration; Van Atta reflector

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANTENNA REFLECTORS; CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DUAL POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; POLARIMETRIC CALIBRATION; POLARIZATION-ROTATING REFLECTOR; VAN ATTA ARRAY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0041883470     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002639     Document Type: Article

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