The application provides a single-step absolute antenna
phase center calibration method and
system with PCV constraint, comprising the following steps: establishing an antenna
phase center calibration
field based on a mechanical arm, forming a short baseline by using the mechanical arm and a static observation base
pier, and collecting calibration data outdoors; constructing three-difference observation values, determining an observation model and a
random model, and calculating the attitude of the antenna through mechanical arm data; for the three-difference observation values, a PCO approximate value is given, the observation value residual is calculated, then a spherical
harmonic function is used to model the PCV, and the PCV value on the grid point is solved and output; according to the
coupling between the PCO and the PCV, the
phase model is expressed as different combinations of the PCO and the PCV, the minimum PCV constraint is applied, and the final consistent
phase model result is obtained, so that the antenna
phase center calibration is realized. The application has the advantages that the two-step
estimation is reduced to one step, the
data processing flow is simplified, the convergence speed of the antenna phase solution is improved, and the consistency of the antenna
phase model calibration result is enhanced.