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In uncalibrated CQP SAR images without corner reflectors (CRs), the reciprocity and reflection symmetry assumptions of the distributed targets are commonly used to estimate the x-pol and co-pol channel imbalances, respectively. To suppress the influence of additive noise on determining channel imbalances through distributed targets, high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) distributed targets should be obtained from the x-pol and co-pol channels of the CQP SAR images: namely, surface-dominated and volume-dominated targets. However, some reflection symmetry assumptions used in the existing calibration literature have poor applicability with volume-dominated targets, resulting in unsatisfactory estimation results for the co-pol channel imbalance phase. In this paper, we assess the priority of the reflection symmetry properties of volume-dominated targets used to calibrate the co-pol channel imbalance phase in CQP SAR data synthesized from linear quad-polarization data of ALOS, GF-3, and RADARSAT-2. In the theoretical part, high-priority reflection symmetry (termed semireflection symmetry) assumptions are confirmed as the most suitable for estimating the co-pol channel imbalance phase, and were selected to develop an algorithm for estimating the co-pol channel imbalance phase. Furthermore, based on the novel method for estimating the co-pol channel imbalance phase, a channel imbalance calibration scheme is proposed for CQP SAR systems with reciprocal crosstalk, including extracting surface-dominated and volume-dominated targets, and estimating and filtering channel imbalances. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme with CRs in simulated CQP SAR images. The experimental results show that the calibration scheme is an effective workflow for estimating channel imbalances in CQP SAR systems with reciprocal crosstalk.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15051365","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,1]],"date-time":"2023-03-01T01:36:09Z","timestamp":1677634569000},"page":"1365","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["A Channel Imbalance Calibration Scheme with Distributed Targets for Circular Quad-Polarization SAR with Reciprocal Crosstalk"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0149-1254","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xingjie","family":"Zhao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"The School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Yunkai","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Heng","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]},{"given":"Xiuqing","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1575","DOI":"10.1109\/LGRS.2020.3005683","article-title":"Ship Detection From PolSAR Imagery Using the Hybrid Polarimetric Covariance Matrix","volume":"18","author":"Zhang","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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