• DocumentCode
    2943602
  • Title

    Reflection characteristics of a retrodirective PARC

  • Author

    Fujita, Masaharu ; Nakamura, Sota ; Murakami, Chikage

  • Author_Institution
    Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of Technol., Japan
  • Volume
    7
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    21-25 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    4506
  • Abstract
    Reflection characteristics of a retrodirective PARC (polarimetric active radar calibrator) were measured in a radio anechoic chamber. The reflection beamwidth was twice as wide as that of a conventional array reflector of the same size, and the measured RCS was 40.8 dBm2 that almost agreed with the predicted value of 41.5 dBm2.
  • Keywords
    active antenna arrays; anechoic chambers (electromagnetic); electromagnetic wave reflection; geophysical techniques; ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; radar antennas; radar cross-sections; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; RCS; active antenna arrays; conventional array reflector; radar antennas; radio anechoic chamber; reflection beamwidth; reflection properties; retrodirective polarimetric active radar calibrator; Anechoic chambers; Antenna measurements; Frequency; Gain; L-band; Optical reflection; Phased arrays; Polarization; Radar cross section; Sensor arrays;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7929-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1295562
  • Filename
    1295562