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This paper deals with the description of a high sophisticated Radar measurement system. In the first part a summary of the fundamental polarimetric definitions will be given. Then a vector error correction, which allows the precise measurement of the complex, polarimetric RCS matrix, is described. The system performance will be verified for simple targets. In the last part the application of such RCS-measurements will be demonstrated for complex targets as there are e.g. aircraft models.
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Riegger, S., Wiesbeck, W., Kähny, D. (1992). Basic Polarimetric Measurements on Monostatic or Bistatic Radar Images. In: Boerner, WM., et al. Direct and Inverse Methods in Radar Polarimetry. NATO ASI Series, vol 350. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9243-2_27
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