Measuring channel balance in multi-channel radar receivers

Radar receivers with multiple receive channels generally strive to make the receive channels as ideal as possible, and as alike as possible. This is done via prudent hardware design, and system calibration. Towards that end, we require a quality metric for ascertaining the goodness of a radar channel, and its match to sibling channels. We propose a relevant and useable metric to do just that.

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