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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2008
Takao Sawa, Yokosuka, JP;
Takao Sawa, Yokosuka, JP;
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A synthetic aperture processing system that includes a signal transmission unit for generating and radiating a plurality of chirp waves to an irradiation region from measuring sites, a signal reception unit for receiving a plurality of reflected waves caused by the plurality of chirp waves, a range compression unit for range-compressing each of the reflected waves and generating reception data consisting of sinc functions, a cross-correlation computation unit for, based on a plurality of model data segments, calculating correlation values representing a degree of correlation between each of the model data segments and the reception data, and image output unit for outputting the correlation values calculated by cross-correlation computation unit.