A polarization-rotating van atta array reflector and its application to polarimetric radar calibration

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1746-1749

  Fujita, Masaharu ^a   Nakamura, Sota ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Polarimetric distortion; Radar polarimetry; Reference target; Scattered field

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVES; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; TURBULENCE;

POLARIMETRIC DISTORTION; RADAR POLARIMETRY; REFERENCE TARGET; SCATTERED FIELDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 15944371603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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4. M. Fujita and C. Murakami, "Experimental study of a polarization-rotating Van Atta array with reduced co-polarized radar cross section," paper presented at IGARSS2003, Toulouse, France, 21-25 July 2003.
5. M. Fujita and C. Murakami, "Suppression of scattered fields in a Van Atta reflector response," IEICE Trans. Commun., vol. E87-B, no. 4, pp. 1045-1047, April 2004.