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The satellite operates in the C-band and has 12 imaging modes for various applications. Three fully polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) imaging modes are provided with a resolution of up to 8 m. Although polarimetric calibration (PolCAL) of the SAR system is periodically undertaken, there is still some residual distortion in the images. In order to assess the polarimetric accuracy of this satellite and improve the image quality, we analyzed the polarimetric distortion errors and performed a PolCAL experiment based on scattering properties and corner reflectors. The experiment indicates that the GF-3 images can meet the satellite\u2019s polarimetric accuracy requirements, i.e., a channel imbalance of 0.5 dB in amplitude and \u00b110 degrees in phase and a crosstalk accuracy of \u221235 dB. However, some images still contain residual polarimetric distortion. 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