Characterization Of The X-Band Fpasmr Airborne Experiment

L\X-band Full Polarization Aperture Synthesis Microwave Radiometer (FPASMR) is a 2-Daperture synthesis radiometer working at L and X-band with full polarization measurement for obtaining high precise measurement of sea salinity and soil moisture. In order to better verify the performance of the system and the validity of the calibration methods, the demonstrator prototype of FPASMR was used in the airborne calibration experiment. Because of the limit of the observation window, the aircraft and load balancing, the demonstrator of 19 X-band antennas Y-shaped array was chosen. This paper is going to show the results of experiment.