Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1997 · 12 citations · 0 references
EngineeringAerospace EngineeringOcean InstrumentationRemote SensingPolar Remote SensingPolarization OpticsRadar CalibrationIn-flight CalibrationPolarimetric CalibrationPolarimetric Error AnalysisPolarimetry InstrumentsPolder SystemsRadar Polarimetry
Two complementary methods for in-flight polarization calibration of the POLDER instrument are described. One makes use of unpolarized targets such as clouds, and the other one of very strongly polarized targets such as sunglint over the ocean. Errors budget and the airborne validation are presented.