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| Title: | Development of SIR-C Ground Calibration Equipment |
| Authors: | Freeman, A.
Azeem, M.
Haub, D.
Sarabandi, K. |
| Issue Date: | Aug-1993 |
| Citation: | IEEE, Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Tokyo, Japan |
| Abstract: | SIR-C/X-SAR is currently scheduled for launch in April 1994. SIR-C is an L-Band and C-Band, multi-polarization spaceborne SAR system developed by NASA/JPL. X- SAR is an X-Band SAR system developed by DARA/ASI. One of the problems involved in calibrating the SIR-C instrument is to make sure that the horizontal (H) and vertical (V) polarized beams are aligned in the azimuth direction, i.e.. that they are pointing in the same direction. This is important if the polarimetric performance specifications for the system are to be met. To solve this problem, we have designed and built a prototype of a low-cost ground receiver capable of recording received power from two antennas, one H-polarized, the other V-polarized. The two signals are mixed to audio then recorded on the left and right stereo channels of a standard audio cassette player. The audio cassette recording can then be played back directly into a Macintosh computer, where it is digitized. Analysis of |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/34764 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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