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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2009
Nicolas Bon, Brest, FR;
Jean-paul Artis, Plouzane, FR;
Alain Becker, Montrouge, FR;
Maxence Marcant, Milizac, FR;
Nicolas Bon, Brest, FR;
Jean-Paul Artis, Plouzane, FR;
Alain Becker, Montrouge, FR;
Maxence Marcant, Milizac, FR;
Thales, , FR;
Abstract
The method processes measured vertical profiles of the power of the echoes returned following a transmission of radar signals, each measured vertical profile being a function of the sweep angle of the radar beam and associated with a given pointing angle/distance box pair of the radar beam. The method generates a synthetic vertical profile of the power of the echoes returned by the ground only, and includes, for each measured vertical profile: superposition of the synthetic vertical profile on the measured vertical profile in question, for various values of the sweep angle, calculation of the error that exists between the measured vertical profile and the synthetic vertical profile, for each sweep angle value in question, and an exclusion, from the measured vertical profile, of the values for which the calculated error is less than a given threshold, in order to generate a resultant vertical profile with no ground echoes.