The three-transponder method: A novel method for accurate transponder RCS calibration

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 297-315

  Doring, Bjorn J ^a   Reimann, Jens ^a   Raab, Sebastian ^a   Jirousek, Matthias ^a   Rudolf, Daniel ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSPONDERS;

ACTIVE RADAR CALIBRATORS; FRIIS TRANSMISSION FORMULA; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; THREE-ANTENNA METHOD; TOTAL MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY CONTRIBUTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84922769829     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERB14110406     Document Type: Article

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