Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Shmuel Nedjar

Igal Bilik

Shahar Villeval

Alexander Pokrass

Gonen Barkan

Ilya Shapir Poltorak

A system and method to achieve angular ambiguity resolution in a two-dimensional Doppler synthetic aperture radar system include transmitting pulses using a plurality of transmit elements during movement of a platform on which the system is mounted. Reflections are received from a target resulting from the pulses and the reflections are processed to determine a Doppler measurement. The processing includes isolating movement of the target in the Doppler measurement, and determining a target azimuth angle and a target elevation angle to the target based on an iterative process that includes estimating the target elevation angle or the target azimuth angle and then determining the target azimuth angle or the target elevation angle, respectively, based on a beamforming matrix. The beamforming matrix indicates amplitude and phase at each azimuth angle and each elevation angle among a set of azimuth angles and a set of elevation angles.

Iterative approach to achieve angular ambiguity resolution

A system and method to perform two-stage beamforming in a radar system includes obtaining an incoming signal vector x associated with a detected target. The method also includes performing coarse beamforming with a first set of kazimuthal angle &#x3b8;and elevation angle &#x3c6;combinations associated with each element of the vector, and selecting a selected area in an azimuth-elevation plane around a subset of the kazimuthal angle &#x3b8;and elevation angle &#x3c6;combinations for each element of the vector. Fine beamforming is performed in the selected area with a second set of kazimuthal angle &#x3b8;and elevation angle &#x3c6;combinations associated with each element of the vector. The second set of kazimuthal angle &#x3b8;and elevation angle &#x3c6;combinations is more closely spaced in the azimuth-elevation plane than the first set of kazimuthal angle &#x3b8;and elevation angle &#x3c6;combinations.

Two-stage beamforming

A method and radar system and vehicle that tracks an object is disclosed. A source signal is transmitted into a volume that includes the object. A reflected signal is received from the volume in response to the source signal. The reflected signal includes a reflection of the source signal from the object. A range is determined for the object from the reflected signal. A ground signal is estimated at the determined range and an amount of the ground signal in the reflected signal is estimated. The object is selected for tracking based on the estimate of the amount of the ground signal in the reflection from the object.

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Modiin, Israel

Shmuel Nedjar