基于参数外推的超宽带雷达有源极化校准技术

doi:10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.08.08

Abstract

Abstract:

Polarimetric active radar calibrator (PARC) are widely used in the field of radar polarization calibration due to its high radar cross section and high signal-to-noise ratio. A parameter extrapolation based active polarization calibration technique for ultrawide-band radar is proposed to address the problem that PARC system can only operate in fixed frequency bands and limited bandwidth, which limits their use in polarization calibration. Using spectral estimation methods to extrapolate the polarization calibration parameters of the calibrator corresponding frequency band to other frequency bands, and then processing the corresponding frequency bands to broaden the operating frequency range of the active polarization calibrator. The PARC with a working frequency of 8~12 GHz is used to calibrate the 4~16 GHz fully polarized radar. The original calibration parameters and extrapolated calibration parameters achieved good polarization calibration results in their respective frequency bands, proving the effectiveness and engineering practical value of the proposed method.

Key words: polarimetric calibration, ultrawide-band radar, polarimetric active radar calibrator (PARC), parameter extrapolation

CLC Number:

TN957

Kuan YANG, Xiaojian XU. Active polarimetric calibration technique based on parameter extrapolation for ultrawide-band radar[J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(8): 2498-2510.

Figures/Tables 18

Fig.1

Fig.2

Table 1

Fig.3

Fig.4

Fig.5

Fig.6

Fig.7

Fig.8

Fig.9

Fig.10

Fig.11

Fig.12

Fig.13

Fig.14

Fig.15

Fig.16

Fig.17

References 31

1	许小剑. 雷达目标散射特性测量与新技术[M]. 北京: 国防工业出版社, 2017.
	XU X J. New techniques for radar target scattering signature measurement and processing[M]. Beijing : National Defense Industry Press, 2017.
2	KOSTINSKI A, BOERNER W. On foundations of radar polarimetry[J]. IEEE Trans. on Antennas Propagation, 1986, 34 (12): 1935- 1404.
3	GHANBARI M, CLAUSI D, LI X, et al. Contextual classification of sea-ice types using compact polarimetric SAR data[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019, 57 (10): 7476- 7491. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2913796
4	庄钊文, 肖顺平, 王雪松. 雷达极化信息处理及其应用[M]. 北京: 国防工业出版社, 1999.
	ZHUANG Z W, XIAO S P, WANG X S. Radar polarimetric signature processing and applications[M]. Beijing: National Defense Industry Press, 1999.
5	SINCLAIR G. The transmission and reception of elliptically polarized waves[J]. Proceedings of the IRE, 1950, 38 (2): 148- 151. doi: 10.1109/JRPROC.1950.230106
6	WIESBECK W, RIEGGER S. A complete error model for free space polarimetric measurements[J]. IEEE Trans. on Antennas Propagation, 1991, 39 (8): 1105- 1111. doi: 10.1109/8.97343
7	MUTH L. Nonlinear calibration of polarimetric radar cross section measurement systems[J]. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 2010, 52 (3): 187- 192. doi: 10.1109/MAP.2010.5586625
8	WHITT M W, ULABY F T. A polarimetric radar calibration technique with insensitivity to target orientation[J]. Radio Science, 1990, 25 (6): 1137- 1143. doi: 10.1029/RS025i006p01137
9	UNAL C, NIEMEIJER R, VAN J, et al. Calibration of a polarimetric radar using a rotatable dihedral corner reflector[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1994, 32 (4): 837- 845. doi: 10.1109/36.298011
10	BEAUDOIN C, HORGAN T, DEMARTINIS G, et al. Fully polarimetric bistatic radar calibration with modified dihedral objects[J]. IEEE Trans. on Antennas Propagation, 2018, 66 (2): 937- 950. doi: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2783191
11	XU X J, LIU T J, WU P F. A new quarter concave cylinder linked dihedral reflector for fully polarimetric calibration of wideband nonreciprocal radar systems[J]. IEEE Trans. on Antennas Propagation, 2023, 71 (4): 3561- 3570. doi: 10.1109/TAP.2023.3240091
12	BRUNFELDT D R, ULABY F T. Active reflector for radar calibration[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1984, 22 (2): 165- 169.
13	孙芳, 康士峰, 罗贤云. 机载杂波测量雷达有源校准器的设计与分析[J]. 电波科学学报, 2001, 16 (4): 534- 537. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-0388.2001.04.024
	SUN F, KANG S F, LUO X Y. Design and analysis of active radar calibrators for airborne clutter measurement radar[J]. Chinese Journal of Radar Science, 2001, 16 (4): 534- 537. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-0388.2001.04.024
14	TANG J G, XU X J. A new polarimetric active radar calibrator and calibration technique[C]//Proc. of 21st Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing, 2015.
15	JIROUSEK M, DöRING B J, RUDOLF D, et al. Development of the highly accurate DLR Kalibri transponder[C]//Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2014.
16	SARABANDI K, KASHANIANFARD M, NASHASHIBI A Y, et al. A polarimetric active transponder with extremely large RCS for absolute radiometric calibration of SMAP radar[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018, 56 (3): 1269- 1277. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2745206
17	LI L, ZHU Y T, HONG J, et al. Design and implementation of a novel polarimetric active radar calibrator for Gaofen-3 SAR[J]. Sensors, 2018, 18 (8): 2620. doi: 10.3390/s18082620
18	YANG K, XU X J. Estimation and correction for the roll angle errors of a switchable DAPARC[C]//Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications, 2023: 321−325.
19	YANG K, HE X Y, LIU T J, et al. A programmable RF-switched double-antenna transponder for fully polarimetric radar calibration[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, 62, 5109713.
20	LIU Y Z, XU X J, XU G Y. MIMO radar calibration and imagery for near-field target scattering diagnosis[J]. IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2018, 54 (1): 442- 452. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2017.2760758
21	HE X Y, LIU T J, SHAN J Z, et al. Calibration of polarimetric millimeter MIMO radar for near-field ultrawideband imaging measurement[J]. IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2024, 73, 8500914.
22	YAMARYO A, TAKATORI T, KIDERA S, et al. Range-point migration-based image expansion method exploiting fully polarimetric data for UWB short-range radar[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2018, 56 (5): 2170- 2182.
23	CUOMO K M, PION J E, MAYHAN J T. Ultrawide-band coherent processing[J]. IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, 1999, 47 (6): 1094- 1107. doi: 10.1109/8.777137
24	BOS R, WAELE S, BROERSEN P M T. Autoregressive spectral estimation by application of the Burg algorithm to irregularly sampled data[J]. IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2002, 51 (6): 1289- 1294. doi: 10.1109/TIM.2002.808031
25	GAMBACORTA L, RAGUSO C, MASTRO M, et al. UWB processing applied to multifrequency radar sounders: the case of MARSIS and comparison with SHARAD[J]. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022, 60, 5120014.
26	PRIESTLEY M B. Spectral analysis and time series[M]. London: Academic, 1981.
27	MARIANI A, GIORGETTI A, CHIANI M. Model order selection based on information theoretic criteria: design of the penalty[J]. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2015, 63 (11): 2779- 2789. doi: 10.1109/TSP.2015.2414900
28	GLENTIS G O, ZHAO K, JAKOBSSON A, et al. Non-parametric high resolution SAR imaging[J]. IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2013, 61 (7): 1614- 1624. doi: 10.1109/TSP.2012.2232662
29	WU P R. A criterion for radar resolution enhancement with Burg algorithm[J]. IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 1995, 31 (3): 897- 915. doi: 10.1109/7.395248
30	SWINGLER D N, WALKER R S. Linear-predictive data extrapolation narrow-band spectral estimation[J]. Proceedings of the IEEE, 1988, 76 (9): 1249- 1251. doi: 10.1109/5.9672
31	NGUYEN V K, TURLEY M D E, FABRIZIO G A. A new data extrapolation approach based on spectral partitioning[J]. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2016, 23 (4): 454- 458. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2016.2533602

序号	发射天线极化	接收天线极化	PSM
1	h	h	${{\boldsymbol{S}}_1} = \sqrt {\dfrac{\sigma }{{4{\text{π }}}}} \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 1&0 \\ 0&0 \end{array}} \right]$
2	h	v	${{\boldsymbol{S}}_2} = \sqrt {\dfrac{\sigma }{{4{\text{π }}}}} \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0&{ - 1} \\ 0&0 \end{array}} \right]$
3	v	h	$ {{\boldsymbol{S}}_3} = \sqrt {\dfrac{\sigma }{{4{\text{π }}}}} \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0&0 \\ { - 1}&0 \end{array}} \right] $
4	v	v	${{\boldsymbol{S}}_4} = \sqrt {\dfrac{\sigma }{{4{\text{π }}}}} \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0&0 \\ 0&1 \end{array}} \right]$

[1]	Chunyu LI, Hubing XIN, Yanqin SONG. A distributed multi-station real-time track processing method for space launch mission [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(7): 2185-2193.
[2]	Xiangtian MENG, Zhehan JING, Bingxia CAO, Minghui SHA, Yingshen ZHU, Fenggang YAN. Super-resolution target localization method based on multi-dimensional parameter spectrum reconstruction of FDA-MIMO radar [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(5): 1461-1468.
[3]	Ning LIU, Fangfang LI, Xinwu LI, Wen HONG. 3D reconstruction of high-rise buildings from SAR combined with footprint and phase information [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(5): 1469-1486.
[4]	Jun ZHANG, Jingwei XU, Keyi WANG, Guisheng LIAO, Jun LI, Xingyu CAI. Transceiver joint multi-beam method for coherent FDA radar [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(5): 1487-1494.
[5]	Huifu WANG, Haibo PAN, Jia LUO, Shifei TAO. Radiation source signal recognition method based on attention map pruning [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(4): 1067-1073.
[6]	Juan LIN, Xijuan ZHU, Xingrun LIU, Haotong LI, Kaifeng WU, Yanbing DONG. Experimental verification research on the attenuation characteristics model of explosive infrared smoke screen [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(3): 720-729.
[7]	Yujia JIA, Siqian ZHANG, Tao TANG, Gangyao KUANG. Blind super-resolution reconstruction of airborne SAR real-time transmission images with enhanced scattering features [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(3): 753-767.
[8]	Qi WANG, Ziyao WANG, Junfeng ZHENG. Simulation model for radar system considering multi-source noise and signal transmission [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(3): 768-778.
[9]	Leilei JIA, Limin LIU, Jian DONG. Fast registration of optical and SAR images based on image structural information [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(2): 428-441.
[10]	Kai XIAO, Guoyao XIAO, Zongzheng SUN, Duopeng WANG, Yinghui QUAN. Design and verification of miniaturized broadband reconnaissance and jamming integrated system [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(1): 22-33.
[11]	Zhikang JI, Zinan ZHOU, Xuanpeng LI. Self-constrained search density based clustering algorithm for radar signal sorting [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(1): 62-69.
[12]	Libing JIANG, Qingwei YANG, Shuyu ZHENG, Zhuang WANG. Multi-orbit targets ISAR imaging resource allocation algorithm for netted radar based on auction theory [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(1): 81-93.
[13]	Yang MENG, Guoru ZHOU, Jie LI, Bingchen ZHANG. Discriminative sparse microwave imaging method based on structured dictionary learning [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(1): 94-100.
[14]	Xiankang SU, Dawei ZHANG, Fang YE. Radar signal sorting method based on hierarchical clustering and spectral adaptation [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2025, 47(1): 101-108.
[15]	Tong OUYANG, Ling WANG, Daiyin ZHU, Yong LI. Fine-grained recognition method for meteorological targets in ResNeXt fused with LightGBM [J]. Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2024, 46(12): 4034-4043.

Active polarimetric calibration technique based on parameter extrapolation for ultrawide-band radar

RichHTML

PDF (PC)

Knowledge

Abstract

Cite this article

share this article

Figures/Tables 18

References 31

Related Articles 15

Recommended Articles

Metrics

Comments