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Polarization Calibration Technology for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar

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SAR calibration is used to establish the exact relationship between image intensity and ground backscattering coefficient, which is the key to realize quantitative remote sensing of SAR. In order to fully utilize the information contained in multi-channel multi-polarization data, quantitatively analyzing the correlation between different channels and different polarizations is needed, so that different polarimetric SAR images truly reflect the dependence of the target response on the polarization state of the electromagnetic wave, that is, the multi-channel multi-polarization calibration is required.

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  1. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Ruliang Yang

  2. Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Bowei Dai

  3. East China Research Institute of Electronics Engineering, Hefei, China

    Lulu Tan

  4. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiuqing Liu

  5. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhen Yang

  6. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Haiying Li

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Yang, R., Dai, B., Tan, L., Liu, X., Yang, Z., Li, H. (2021). Polarization Calibration Technology for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar. In: Polarimetric Microwave Imaging. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8897-6_6

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