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Therefore, the measurement method for the LEO-SAR elevation antenna pattern using the SAR data acquired over the Amazon tropical rainforest (ground-based method), where the typical width of rainforest area is approximately 150 km, can hardly meet the requirement of a wide swath to determine the MEO-SAR antenna elevation pattern. Moreover, several new MEO-SAR systems are now proposed that will use low frequency, and the low frequency penetration characteristics may affect the elevation antenna pattern determination using homogenous distributed targets such as the Amazon rainforest. This paper proposes a novel space-based method for the in-orbit measurement of the elevation antenna pattern of MEO-SAR based on one nano calibration satellite mounted with a receiver. Through appropriate orbit design, the nano calibration satellite can fly across the entire MEO-SAR swath along the range direction, and the elevation antenna pattern envelope can be extracted from the data recorded by the receiver. Simulation work is performed to verify the feasibility of the proposed space-based method, and the measurement accuracy of this method is analyzed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030741","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]],"date-time":"2022-02-06T20:38:40Z","timestamp":1644179920000},"page":"741","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["An In-Orbit Measurement Method for Elevation Antenna Pattern of MEO Synthetic Aperture Radar Based on Nano Calibration Satellite"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Tian","family":"Qiu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8528-3227","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Kaichu","family":"Xing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Shaoyan","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Jingwen","family":"Mu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Microwave Imaging, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1313","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2019.2945875","article-title":"MEO SAR: System Concepts and Analysis","volume":"58","author":"Matar","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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