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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
May. 09, 2011
Barbara A. Capron, Sammamish, WA (US);
Claudio Gilbert Parazzoli, Seattle, WA (US);
Barbara A. Capron, Sammamish, WA (US);
Claudio Gilbert Parazzoli, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus for a super resolution radar image extraction procedure are disclosed. The super-resolution imaging radar (SRIR) system involves a pulse signal generator, an array bucket detector, an ancilla beam detector, and a coincidence circuit. The pulse signal generator propagates N number of bursts of radio frequency (RF) energy, where each burst contains M number of dithered pulses. The pulses are propagated towards an object of interest and the ancilla beam detector. The array bucket detector collects pulses that are reflected from the object. The ancilla beam detector scans in a direction of the dithered pulses, and collects the dithered pulses. The coincidence circuit calculates a cross-time correlation function from the pulses that are collected by the array bucket detector and the ancilla beam detector. The coincidence circuit sums cross-time correlation function results to generate pixels of an image of the object.