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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
Thales, Courbevoie, FR;
Louis Raillon, Sophia Antipolis, FR;
THALES, Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
An acoustic detection system for detecting at least partly submerged targets in a sensitive area defined with respect to an infrastructure, wherein the system includes at least one multistatic detection group, each multistatic detection group defining a detection area, and comprising: a submerged transmitter transmitting at low frequencies; a plurality of submerged receivers comprising at least two receivers, each receiver of a given group forming, with the transmitter of the group, a bistatic pair, each bistatic pair generating an elementary detection area surrounding a blind zone, the detection area of the group being formed by all of the elementary detection areas of the receivers of the group, the blind zone of each receiver in a given detection group being at least partly covered by the elementary detection areas of the neighbouring receivers of the detection system.