G01S13/9029

SHIP BEHAVIOR ANALYZING DEVICE, SHIP BEHAVIOR ANALYZING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM
20220120892 · 2022-04-21 · ·

An object of an example embodiment of the present disclosure is to stably estimate a navigation status of a target ship at a predetermined time from time-series position information of the ship. A ship behavior analyzing device according to the example embodiment of the present disclosure includes a ship detection means for detecting a ship from synthetic aperture radar data, a wake extraction means for extracting a wake of the detected ship, a wake pattern generation means for generating a wake pattern image by using the extracted wake, and a navigation status estimation means for estimating a navigation status of the target ship by using the generated wake pattern image.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPACE-VARIANCE CORRECTION IMAGING OF BISTATIC SAR, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM

A method for space-variance correction imaging of BiSAR includes: motion parameters corresponding to a target point in an equivalent monostatic mode are calculated using a first motion trajectory, a second motion trajectory and an imaging parameter for focusing a radar echo signal, the target point at least including a center point of an imaging scene; azimuth Doppler center bias correction is performed on the radar echo signal by using the motion parameters corresponding to the center point; uniform and residual range cell migration correction is performed on a corrected signal, range blocking is performed, and range space-variance phase errors are corrected block by block; azimuth blocking is performed, and a corresponding number of filters are constructed for filtering processing; and inverse Doppler center bias correction is further performed to obtain a final imaging result graph.

Angle-Doppler Keystone formatting for airborne look-down radar system

An airborne radar system and signal interpretation approach that detects slow moving ground targets using angle and Doppler of Keystone formatting process, and is referred to as Angle-Doppler Keystone Formatting (ADK). ADK collapses the clutter ridge to a constant Doppler or to a constant angle, thereby transforming a clutter ridge in angle-Doppler space into a horizontal line of constant Doppler or a vertical line of constant angle. Clutter may then be filtered more effectively, such as by using multiple beams as the source of STAP training data or by using multiple Doppler bins.

RADAR AND METHOD FOR TARGET DETECTION USING RADAR
20230350055 · 2023-11-02 ·

A radar includes antennas, a receiving system, a transmitting system, and a short orbit. The short orbit is provided with a receiving system capable of reciprocating motion thereon; or, the short orbit is provided with a transmitting system capable of reciprocating motion thereon; or, the short orbit is provided with both a receiving system and a transmitting system capable of reciprocating motion thereon.

SATELLITE-FORMATION-BASED REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM AND CONSTELLATION SYSTEM
20220283295 · 2022-09-08 ·

The present invention relates a remote sensing system, or particularly a satellite-formation-based remote sensing system, wherein comprising: a master satellite provided with an SAR system as a payload thereof, a first concomitant satellite, and a second concomitant satellite, wherein the first concomitant satellite and the second concomitant satellite fly around the master satellite, and the master satellite is located on major axes of motion trajectories of the first concomitant satellite and the second concomitant satellite, so as to define a first spatial baseline and a second spatial baseline that have an identical cross-track baseline component. The present invention enables high-precision, wide-range, three-dimensional imaging based on the satellite-formation, while acquires spatiotemporal features of variation of a ground region according to the synchronization in terms of time, frequency, and space.

Multiple Resolution RADAR
20220276376 · 2022-09-01 ·

A method for operating a synthetic aperture radar, SAR, mode, in an SAR instrument, wherein the method comprises the steps of: acquiring at least one subswath positioned in an across track direction of a movement of the SAR instrument, wherein the at least one subswath is acquired during at least one acquisition burst duration and/or at a predetermined radio frequency bandwidth; adjusting the at least one acquisition burst duration and/or the predetermined radio frequency bandwidth and/or a number of parallel simultaneous subswaths and/or an inserted burst duration for a further subswath based upon a predetermined parameter; constructing an SAR image based on the acquired at least one subswath.

Object sensing from a potentially moving frame of reference with virtual apertures formed from sparse antenna arrays

In some examples, a first plurality of independent waveforms can be generated and converted into a first plurality of independent transmitted radar signals transmitted towards a field of view using a transmitter array comprising a first plurality of transmitter antennas. Further, a second plurality of receive radar signals to the first plurality of independent transmitted radar signals can be received from the field of view using a receiver array comprising a second plurality of receiver antennas. The second plurality of receive radar signals can be combined to form a combined receive radar signal and a representation of one or more areas of interest in the field of view can be provided using the combined receive radar signal. One or more attributes of the one or more areas of interest can be rendered using the representation of the one or more areas of interest.

AUTOMOTIVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR WITH RADON TRANSFORM

A method for using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to perform a maneuver in a land vehicle is provided. The method includes: receiving digitized radar return data from a radar transmission from a SAR onboard the vehicle; accumulating a plurality of frames of the digitized radar return data; applying a RADON transform to the accumulated plurality of frames of the digitized radar return data and odometry data from the vehicle to generate transformed frames of data for each three-dimensional point, wherein the RADON transform is configured to perform coherent integration for each three-dimensional point, project a radar trajectory onto each three-dimensional point, and project Doppler information onto each three-dimensional point; generating a two-dimensional map of an area covered by the radar transmission from the SAR based on the transformed frames of data for each three-dimensional point; and performing a maneuver with the land vehicle by applying the generated two-dimensional map.

Synthetic aperture radar imaging apparatus and methods for moving targets

A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system may employ SAR imaging to advantageously estimate or monitor a transit characteristic (e.g., velocity, acceleration) of a vehicle, for example a ground based vehicle or water based vehicle. A dual-beam SAR antenna illuminate a moving target with a first radar beam and a second radar beam at an angular offset relative to the first radar beam. Pulses may be transmitted and backscattered energy received simultaneously by the SAR transceiver via the first and second radar beams. A SAR data processor may generate a first image from the first radar beam and a second image from the second radar beam, co-registering the first and second images, comparing the location of the moving target in the first and second images, and estimate a velocity of the moving target based at least in part on the angular offset.

Method and apparatus for enhancing semantic features of SAR image oriented small set of samples
11402496 · 2022-08-02 · ·

The present disclosure relates to a method for enhancing sematic features of SAR image oriented small set of samples, comprising: acquiring a sample set of an SAR target image, and performing transfer learning and training on the sample set to obtain a initialized deep neural network of an SAR target image, the sample set comprising an SAR target image and an SAR target virtual image; performing network optimization on the deep neural network by an activation function, and extracting features of the SAR target image by the optimized deep neural network to obtain a feature map; and mapping, by an auto-encoder, the feature map between a feature space and a semantic space to obtain a deep visual feature with an enhanced semantic feature.