A Calibration Method Based on Fusing Multiple Calibrators for Ultra Wide Band Virtual Aperture Radar System Using Stepped Frequency

The system calibration is very important for the Ultra Wide Band-Virtual Aperture Radar (UWB-VAR) which could penetrate ground to detect the flush buried targets with weak scattering. The usual system calibration method used in narrow band radar with high frequency is based on one single calibration object, which can not be applied to the UWB-VAR system any more for its ultra bandwidth and inconsistentness among different channels. In this paper after analyzing the system errors and the electromagnetism of both calibration objects and landmines a new method basing on fusing multiple calibrators and multiband is introduced. This new method could not only calibrate the system errors efficiently, but also enhance the performance of imaging. Finally it is proved to be effective by the real data.