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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7417586 | Methods and systems for interferometric cross track phase calibration A method to compensate for variances in signal path delays for a plurality of radar return processing channels is described. The method comprises providing a signal in the signal path between an antenna and a corresponding receiver of each radar return processing ch... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417579 | Weather radar with significance determination A weather radar system includes processing electronics. The processing electronics sense weather and determine significant weather based upon the altitude of the weather. The altitude of the weather can be compared to a flight path to determine its significance. A d... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417577 | Methods of estimating precipitation characteristics A method of estimating precipitation characteristics including acquiring a radar image including at least a vertical plane of a precipitation zone; processing a vertical profile to generate digital signals representative of reflectivity in vertical direction z; inte... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417585 | Radar scanning method A scanning method of an in-vehicle scanning-type radar for emitting beams subsequently to execute scanning and for detecting an object includes determining whether or not the object is in an approaching state. When it is determined that the object is not in the appr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411543 | Maximum-likelihood rocket identifier A sensor suite determines location and velocity information relating to a missile threat, which is converted to missile or rocket state estimates. The state estimates are transformed into time-invariant dynamic parameters, unique for each missile type. Estimated roc... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411544 | System and method for determining patrol speed A system for processing radar data from two or more areas of interest is provided, such as for simultaneously processing vehicle speeds in the opposite lane in front of the patrol vehicle and in the opposite lane behind the patrol vehicle. The system includes an ant... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411539 | Method for detecting the presence of radar signal emitters, an electronic support measures unit and a system for determining the position and identity of said emitters A method for passively detecting the presence of radar signal emitters, in which an ESM unit receives radar signals with a number of antennas, each antenna covering a sector of the surrounding terrain. In order to conserve bandwidth, a technique is used, in which re... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408497 | Method and device for determining a reference value of a response, in particular of a mode S response received by a secondary radar The present invention applies to the surveillance of, in particular civil, air traffic, and more particularly, to cooperative aircraft ground systems which make it possible to pinpoint in radial distance and in azimuth the aircraft present in a certain volume and to... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408498 | Secondary surveillance radar and its interrogation transmission method An interrogation transmission method of a secondary surveillance radar compares prediction angle ranges for transmitting interrogations with a beam-width of an antenna, and transmits the interrogations at every roll-call period if the prediction angle ranges for tra... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405693 | System and method for synthesizing data in a radar system A system for synthesizing data received from a weather radar system includes a digital signal processor, a data synthesizer, a convolution filter, and data storage. The digital signal processor digitizes reflectivity data from a radar antenna. The data synthesizer g... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400289 | Plume-to-hardbody offset compensation in boosting missiles A methodology determines the offset distance between a threat missile plume and its hardbody during boost phase to aid in guiding a kinetic weapon (KW) or interceptor missile to the threat missile hardbody using the KW infrared sensor of the interceptor missile in c... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394046 | Tracking of a moving object A system for determination of kinematics of a moving object comprising: a sensor producing angular data for the object at a number of observation times, a state initialization unit, receiving angular data from the sensor and on basis thereof determining a first kine... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394047 | Interceptor guidance for boost-phase missile defense A fire control system for a boost phase threat missile includes sensors for generating target-missile representative signals, and a multi-hypothesis track filter, which estimates the states of various target hypotheses. The estimated states are typed to generate hyp... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391362 | Linear FM radar A FM-CW radar system comprises a frequency modulated continuous wave digital generator that produces both in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) outputs to orthogonally oriented transmitter antennas. A linearly polarized beam is output from a switched antenna array t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391358 | Weather radar echo tops forecast generation Described are a method and a system for generating a short-term forecast of echo tops as defined by weather radar measurements. The method includes receiving echo tops images for different times. An echo tops growth rate and an echo tops maximum value are determined... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385553 | Process for mapping multiple-bounce ghosting artifacts from radar imaging data Described herein are frequency-domain back-projection processes for forming spotlight synthetic aperture radar (“SAR”) images that are not corrupted by the effects of multiple-bounce ghosting artifacts. These processes give an approximately exact reconstruction ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385550 | Method for measuring distances and speeds of several objects by means of an FMCW radar Distance and velocity measuring at a plurality of objects using FMCW radar includes repeating measurements using different frequency ramps and including mixing transmitted and received signals, and recording the mixed signal's spectrum. A matching includes recording... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379018 | System and method for verifying a radar detection The method and system provide provisions for generating a respective detection state value associated with each of a plurality of RF receive beams. A first state value is indicative of a detection. The method and system further provide provisions, for each of the de... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379017 | Micro movement pulsed radar system and method of phase noise compensation A pulsed radar system uses phase noise compensation to reduce phase noise due to drift of the reference oscillator to enable detection of micro movements and particularly human motion such as walking, breathing or heartbeat. The noise level due to A/D sampling must ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379016 | Carrier phase detection system for radar sensors A pulse detection system for expanded time radar, laser and TDR sensors detects specific cycles within bursts of cycles. A sensor transmits and receives short bursts of RF cycles. A transmit pulse detector triggers on a selected cycle of the detected transmit burst ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375679 | Reduced state estimation with biased and out-of-sequence measurements from multiple sensors This invention relates to state estimation after processing time-delayed measurements with unknown biases that may vary arbitrarily in time within known physical bounds. These biased measurements are obtained from systems characterized by state variables and by mult... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372393 | Method and system for determining unwrapped phases from noisy two-dimensional wrapped-phase images A method converts an input image of noisy wrapped phases to an output image of absolute unwrapped phases. The noisy wrapped phases in the input image are represented as a set of re-wrapped phases and a set of phase shifts. The set of re-wrapped phases are partitione... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369083 | Method for performing bistatic radar functions A bistatic radar system having a transmitter that generates unique signals at spatially independent transmitter degrees of freedom and a receiver that filters the signal at each receiver degree of freedom into a group of signals identical in number to the number of ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365676 | Sensor for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals The invention relates to a sensor comprising a housing, inside of which a transmitting antenna array that transmits electromagnetic transmission signals in a radiation area and a receiving antenna array that receives received signals reflected by at least one object... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365674 | Airborne weather profiler network Apparatus and methods for remotely sensing meteorological conditions and for building models from the sensed conditions. More particularly, networks and systems are provided for gathering remotely sensed profiles of the meteorological conditions and for building the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365673 | Compression and transmission of weather data Weather radar reflectivity data is compressed by converting radar data to image pixels. Next, contours are traced from select groupings of the pixels. Control points are derived from the contours. The control points represent a compressed version of the radar data a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362257 | Wideband interference cancellation using DSP algorithms A method and system is provided for detecting and characterizing pulsed threat radar emitters through heavy in-band interference. System includes an advanced digital signal processing method provides spatial and temporal interference cancellation, super-resolution d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358887 | System and method for detecting emitters signals having multi-valued illumination times A system and method is provided for detecting emitter signals and for determining a scan strategy for a receiver system that receives such emitter signals. When detecting emitter signals of a particular emitter, the receiver may periodically revisit the portion of t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358892 | System and method for coherently combining a plurality of radars Systems and techniques for coherent combining radars include generating a phase and range calibration and initialization values for adjusting a time delay and a phase of a transmitted pulse from one of the radars, resulting in received composite target echoes at eac... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358891 | Multipath resolving correlation interferometer direction finding Apparatus and a method utilizing correlation interferometer direction finding for determining the azimuth and elevation to an aircraft at long range and flying at low altitudes above water with a transmitting radar while resolving multipath signals. The signals from... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356438 | Method and device for temperature monitoring along a measuring line The present invention relates to a registering device for registering a location along a measuring line, at which location a temperature change takes place. In an advantageous way, according to one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, by means of the FMCW ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355546 | Polarization and frequency diverse radar system for complete polarimetric characterization of scatterers with increased scanning speed A method and apparatus is provided, whereby a scanning, polarization and frequency diverse radar system measures the complete polarimetric characterization of weather targets without loss of scanning speed and without an additional ambiguity in the Doppler velocity ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352320 | FM-CW radar An FM-CW radar includes a transmitting section, a mixing section, an A/D conversion section, a storage unit, and a signal processing section. The transmitting section transmits a continuous wave frequency-modulated with a triangular wave. The mixing section mixes th... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352800 | Method of partial parallel interference cancellation A method of Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation (PPIC) is provided for recursively eliminating the Multiple Access Interference from a received signal. Such method is to use a recursion way to eliminate all the Multiple Access Interference (MAI) one by one fr... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352321 | Determining statistical descriptors of a signal from a set of its samples An entity is subjected to an interrogating signal, and the reflection from the entity is repeatedly sampled to obtain a first set of values each dependent on the intensity of the reflected signal. A logarithmic transformation is applied to the sample values to obtai... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348918 | Mobile ballistic missile detection and defense system The present invention is directed towards a ballistic missile detection and defense system. The system of the present invention comprises a ship based interceptor or antiballistic missile, a missile launch detection and tracking system, and a signal processing syste... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345624 | Pulse wave radar device To achieve a purpose of the present invention, a pulse wave radar device related to the present invention modulates a first transmitting pulse and a second transmitting pulse which are separated from each other by a predetermined lapse of time and transmits a transm... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345617 | Apparatus for collecting ground radar data with polarization information The present invention concerns an apparatus for collecting ground radar data with polarization information comprising a main body exhibiting structure for moving the apparatus along the ground, a part that rotates in relation to the main body supporting a pair of an... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345621 | Real-time multistatic radar signal processing system and method A real-time signal processing engine robustly detects, localizes, tracks and classifies ground targets based on radar signals from a multistatic radar system. The system differentiates between different targets based on an optimized cost function, which can include ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342531 | Redundant level measurement in radar level gauging system A method and system for determining a product level in a tank which determine a first level measure using emission of electromagnetic waves into the tank, detect a differential pressure, determine an observed density based on the detected differential pressure and t... | 03/11/2008 |
