Open AccessReflectors for SAR performance testing.
Author(s) -
Armin W. Doerry
Publication year - 2008
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/929123
Subject(s) - radar cross section , synthetic aperture radar , corner reflector , remote sensing , computer science , radar , orientation (vector space) , geology , reflector (photography) , ground penetrating radar , artificial intelligence , computer vision , optics , geometry , physics , mathematics , telecommunications , light source
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) performance testing and estimation is facilitated by observing the system response to known target scene elements. Trihedral corner reflectors and other canonical targets play an important role because their Radar Cross Section (RCS) can be calculated analytically. However, reflector orientation and the proximity of the ground and mounting structures can significantly impact the accuracy and precision with which measurements can be made. These issues are examined in this report