SAR辐射定标中角反射器RCS的快速求解
Fast Solution to the RCS of Corner Reflector for the SAR Radiometric Calibration
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摘要: 角反射器雷达截面积的快速准确解算是顺利开展合成孔径雷达辐射定标工作的重要基础。用于合成孔径雷达辐射定标的角反射器为电大尺寸,因此,宜采用高频近似法进行雷达截面积的仿真计算。本文利用几何光学对入射波和反射波进行射线追迹以确定每次入射场及其相对应的照明区域,然后采用Gordan面元积分法对每个照明区域求散射场并累加得到角反射器的雷达截面积,通过与文献、电磁仿真软件FEKO(FEldberechnung für körper mit beliebiger oberfläche)的仿真结果比较,证明该方法有效且简单快捷,尤其适用于电大尺寸平板角反射器雷达截面积的快速求解。Abstract: Fast and accurate solution of a corner reflector's radar cross section is the important foundation of synthetic aperture radar radiometric calibration. Since a corner reflector used in radiometric calibration is usually electrically large, its backscatter field is appropriately analyzed with a high frequency approximation method;a fast and accurate solution is proposed in this paper. The incident field and its corresponding illuminated area are determined by a ray tracing of a incident wave and reflected wave, then the backscatter field of each illuminated area is computed by the Gordan surface integral method respectively and added up for the total RCS of a corner reflector. Simulation results agreed well with the results from the references and from the electromagnetic computing software FEKO. So the method proposed in this paper was demonstrated to be accurate and efficient, and especially suitable for fast radar cross section computation of corner reflectors composed of large size plates.