The application discloses a general compact
polarimetric SAR calibration method and device, and belongs to the technical field of polarization calibration. The method aims at the problems of poor universality of existing calibration methods, difficulty in adapting to different working
modes of loads and inconsistency of amplitude and phase coefficients of calibrators, establishes a general
system model uniformly covering three compact polarization
modes of pi / 4, dual
circular polarization and circular transmission and linear reception, and demonstrates that the Faraday rotation effect does not change the model structure. The application adopts a
genetic algorithm to globally optimize
system distortion parameters, and is supplemented by an analytical method to estimate amplitude and phase coefficients of each calibrator, so that parameter separation and high-precision
estimation are realized. The application breaks through the limitation of a single mode, does not require amplitude and phase consistency of calibrators, and has the advantages of strong universality, high precision and good robustness, with each parameter
estimation error being less than 1dB or 5 degrees when SNR is greater than 33dB.