Abstract
The on-board calibration of aperture synthesis radiometers (ASRs) with large arrays by the standard method of noise injection would seriously increase hardware requirements and system complexity. To avoid the use of noise injection, an external phase calibration method with antenna array rotation is proposed in this letter, which uses the observation scene as reference without needing for an external calibrator. The relationship of the visibility samples before and after the rotation is established and used to solve for the instrumental phase errors. The proposed method has been proved to be valid by simulations as well as some preliminary experimental results. It is applicable to geostationary ASRs with rotating array such as the geostationary atmospheric sounder.
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