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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1989
Filed:
May. 18, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Howard A Zebker, Pasadena, CA (US);
Daniel N Held, Altadena, CA (US);
Jakob J van Zul, Pasadena, CA (US);
Pascale C Dubois, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Lynne Norikane, Arcadia, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 25 ; 342190 ; 342195 ;
Abstract
Two alternative methods are disclosed for digital reduction of synthetic aperture multipolarized radar data using scattering matrices, or using Stokes matrices, of four consecutive along-track pixels to produce 'averaged' data for generating a synthetic polarization image.