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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8144051 | Adaptive sidelobe blanking for motion compensation A motion compensation method and system is included in a radar antenna system mounted on a moving platform which is subject to pitch, yaw and roll. The radar antenna system includes a main array antenna, and an auxiliary antenna. The auxiliary channel associated wit... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7333046 | System and method for monitoring targets A system comprising a moving radar, a processing device, and a phase difference determination device is used to monitor a target. The moving radar has first and second phase centers that transmit and receive signals normal to a direction of movement of the radar. Th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327305 | Process for the evaluation of signals in an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system The invention relates to a process for the evaluating a received signal of an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system that transmits SAR and MTI pulses with respective definable pulse repetition frequency PRF_SAR and PRF_MTI, such that the received signal is a superimposition c... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7298316 | Apparatus and method for instantly automatic detecting clutter blocks and interference source and for dynamically establishing clutter map An apparatus for detecting clutter blocks and an interference source for dynamically establishing a clutter map includes a clutter block detecting module accumulates a plurality of range cell data of each detecting area, and compares the accumulated value with a clu... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7154434 | Anti-personnel airborne radar application An anti-personnel airborne radar application for ultra slow target tracking is provided. The anti-personnel airborne radar application includes a rotorcraft and a signal processing system. The signal processing system includes a radar antenna supported by said rotor... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145497 | Robust detection technique of fixed and moving ground targets using a common waveform Detection of moving targets in SAR images is improved by a radar on a moving platform for generating a focused synthetic aperture image of a scene The scene contains a target described by pixels within the SAR image. The radar has a monopulse antenna having a sum ch... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145496 | Autofocus method based on successive parameter adjustments for contrast optimization A radar on a moving platform generates an initial synthetic aperture (SAR) image of a scene from a sequence of periodic pulse returns approximately motion compensated. The SAR image is formed from pixel intensities zn(x,y) within a x,y extent of the initi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145498 | Efficient autofocus method for swath SAR A moving radar generates a search mode synthetic aperture image of a patch from periodic pulse returns reflected from the patch. The patch is imaged from radar returns derived from two or more overlapping arrays. A strong scatterer is located within each array, then... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7106243 | Technique for enhanced quality high resolution 2D imaging of ground moving targets A radar receiver on a moving platform images a moving target and non-moving clutter using a single SAR array. The radar receiver converts the radar returns into digital radar returns and motion compensates the digital radar returns with respect to a reference, then ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095358 | Technique for cancellation of elevated clutter for the detection of fixed and ground moving targets under trees A target is detected under a forest canopy or other elevated clutter where the target is obscured by the elevated clutter. Radar returns reflected from the target on the surface, combined with those from the elevated clutter are digitized. Motion compensation is per... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081849 | Process for sensor resources management The subject process accepts the data from a kinematic tracker and maps them to fuzzy set conditions. Then using a multitude of defined membership functions and fuzzy logic gates, generates sensor mode control rules. It does this for every track and each sensor. The ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081848 | Orthogonal pulse range ambiguity resolution A method for active ranging, such as radar, which sequentially transmits pulses of mutually different waveforms. Receive processing is performed concurrently for all the transmitted waveforms during each interpulse interval, to thereby provide range ambiguity resolu... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079991 | Maneuvering target tracking method via modifying the interacting multiple model (IMM) and the interacting acceleration compensation (IAC) algorithms The present invention relates to the field of target tracking and more generally to a method employing improved algorithms, which achieve excellent tracking performance for a high-g maneuvering target. The two-model Interacting Multiple Model algorithm and the Inter... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7071873 | T/R module for satellite TT and C ground link Transmit/Receive (T/R) module that provides multiple simultaneous ground to satellite links with rapid pointing and acquisition. The (T/R) module incorporates independent gain and phase control. Left-hand or right-hand circular polarization can be supplied to dual f... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7032857 | Multi-sensor guidance system for extreme force launch shock applications A projectile navigation system operable within an extremely high G-shock loading environment during the launch phase may include a set of Kalman filters configured to repeatedly calculate a navigational solution by solving a set of non-linear equations of motions of... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7006034 | Fast and slow time scale clutter cancellation Target detection in the presence of non stationary clutter is improved by a radar receiver on a moving platform for detecting a target using a plurality of short coherent arrays and a plurality of long coherent arrays synthesized from the short coherent arrays overl... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6982668 | Tangential velocity measurement using interferometric MTI radar Radar systems use time delay measurements between a transmitted signal and its echo to calculate range to a target. Ranges that change with time cause a Doppler offset in phase and frequency of the echo. Consequently, the closing velocity between target and radar ca... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6977610 | Multiple radar combining for increased range, radar sensitivity and angle accuracy A mechanism for combining signals of multiple radars to achieve increased range, radar sensitivity and angle accuracy is provided. A first signal beam is radiated from an antenna of a first radar in the direction of a target. A second signal beam is radiated from an... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6937185 | Rain versus target discrimination for doppler radars A method of removing returns from rain in Doppler radar systems (and corresponding apparatus and computer software) comprising receiving a Doppler radar return signal, transforming the signal into a range versus frequency map, for a plurality of range cells, perform... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930633 | Adaptive glint reduction method and system A method and system for adaptively reducing, in a displacement signal having a value indicative of a measured angular displacement between an antenna boresight and an apparent line of sight to a target, a noise signal having a value indicative of an angular error in... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6897804 | Methods and apparatus for determination of a filter center frequency A method for calculating a center frequency and a bandwidth for a radar doppler filter is herein described. The center frequency and bandwidth are calculated to provide radar performance over varying terrain and aircraft altitude, pitch, and roll. The method include... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6833808 | Signal processing A method and apparatus for processing of a signal in which a variation in phase between a transmitted and reflected pulse is modeled, as is the amplitude of the pulse. The modeled phase and amplitude are used to smooth the data by reducing phase noise present on the... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6803876 | Irregular PRT deconvolution method and systems, and its uses This invention relates to radar signal processing. In particular, this invention concerns Doppler processing and clutter filtering on irregular Pulse Repetition Time (PRT) sampled signal. This invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks, in particular solv... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6765526 | GMTI motion compensation Movement of a GMTI radar during a coherent processing interval over which a set of radar pulses are processed may cause defocusing of a range-Doppler map in the video signal. This problem may be compensated by varying waveform or sampling parameters of each pulse to... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6756935 | Full polarization ground moving target indicator radar automatic target detection algorithm A method, apparatus, and system for automatic detection of targets from radar data are disclosed. Ground moving target indicator radar is used to collect radar data which is then filtered to suppress intensity of the clutter ridge. For each working point in a set of... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6614386 | Bistatic radar system using transmitters in mid-earth orbit A bistatic radar system and method. In the illustrative embodiment, a receiver is positioned in a horizontal plane. A transmitter is then positioned in Middle Earth Orbit at a position that is nearly vertical to the plane of the receiver. This configurati... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6597304 | System and method for coherent array aberration sensing A system and method for sensing phase errors in a multiple receiver array use three non-collinear transmitters transmitting first, second, and third signals to a target and receiving corresponding signals reflected from the target using the multiple recei... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6553007 | Compensation of doppler shift in a mobile communication system The present invention relates to a method and a system for compensating for doppler shift in a signal transmitted between a mobile station and a base station in a mobile communication system. In the method the doppler characteristic is determined for two ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6518917 | MPRF interpulse phase modulation for maximizing doppler clear space A method for operating a radar system includes the steps of overlapping mainlobe clutter interference and feedthrough interference in a Doppler output signal of a coherent pulse Doppler radar including the step of phase modulating each pulse of a transmit... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6393376 | Method of determining a roadway curve radius A curve radius of a roadway is determined by measuring the difference in wheel speed of at least two vehicle wheels and the rate of yaw of the vehicle, and hence the curve radius, is determined therefrom. The wheel speeds are determined by measuring the t... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6307501 | Radar systems In a radar system it is necessary to distinguish signals reflected from wanted targets such as aircraft from those reflected from fixed terrain features, known as clutter. The clutter signals can in some cases be significantly stronger than the wanted sig... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6114984 | Interferometric doppler guidance system A means for identifying a particular range and Doppler shift signal in the field of view of a moving radar antenna which determines azimuth angle to this range-Doppler signal relative to the antenna by determining the phase difference between said signal ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5872535 | Removing buoy motion from wind profiler moment The present invention provides an apparatus and method for correcting buoy motion in Doppler moment estimates. In the present invention, it is assumed that the buoy is stationary over short periods of time, 0.5 seconds for example. The average pitch and r... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5818383 | Interferometric moving vehicle imaging apparatus and method An interferometric moving target radar imaging system includes a plurality of simultaneously operating apertures, receivers and processing channels which together coherently process RF return signals to image a moving vehicle. The system corrects for the ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5784026 | Radar detection of accelerating airborne targets Radar detection of accelerating airborne targets in accordance with the present invention utilizing a sequence of velocity, acceleration matched filters. This system includes a transmitter generating a signal oscillating at a predetermined frequency contr... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5748140 | System for tracking radar targets in background clutter A radar tracking system 100 adapted for use with existing radar tracking systems. The inventive system includes a radar target detection system 106, 108 for detecting radar targets in clutter using magnitude and angular position information obtained from ... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5708436 | Multi-mode radar system having real-time ultra high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) capability One meter and one foot resolution is achieved in a multi-mode SAR radar system in real time by wide bandwidth RF signal generation, precision motion compensation, polar reformatting, autofocusing and high dynamic range image processing. An exciter/receive... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5703593 | Adaptive DPCA subsystem An ADPCA subsystem includes a weight processor for weighting the delta channel signal according to the results of an adaptive algorithm to which the output of a DPCA vector combiner is input. An AMTI vector combiner is connected to the output of the DPCA ... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5594451 | Processing method using an advanced radar waveform for simultaneous matched processing and range profiling of different size targets A method of processing radar returns derived from a new radar waveform. The method processes radar returns derived from transmitting the radar waveform to provide simultaneous matched processing and range profiling of different size objects in the presenc... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5546084 | Synthetic aperture radar clutter reduction system A method, and corresponding apparatus, for deriving clutter-reduced images of the ocean surface in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. An estimate of ocean surface parameters is first made and subsequently updated iteratively, to provide a reliable mo... | 08/13/1996 |
