11 patents
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Systems and Methods for Determining Operational Parameters of a Synthetic Aperture Radar
18 Aug 22
A method of determining feasible swaths of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) includes determining a first plurality of swaths that are transmit-feasible and nadir-feasible, determining a second plurality of swaths of the first plurality of swaths that satisfy at least one hard constraint, the at least one hard constraint being an image quality constraint or a system constraint, and generating a graph of the second plurality of swaths.
Julie Nutini, Jaklyn De Vos, Peter Allen Fox, Ives José de Albuquerque Macêdo, Jr.
Filed: 6 Jul 20
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Synthetic aperture radar imaging apparatus and methods for moving targets
5 Jul 22
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system may employ SAR imaging to advantageously estimate or monitor a transit characteristic (e.g., velocity, acceleration) of a vehicle, for example a ground based vehicle or water based vehicle.
Peter Allen Fox, Keith Dennis Richard Beckett
Filed: 23 May 18
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Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Apparatus and Methods
3 Mar 22
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is operable in an interrogation mode and in a self-imaging mode, the self-imaging mode entered in response to determining a response to interrogation pulses have been received from a ground terminal and position information specifying a ground location has been received from the ground terminal.
Peter Allen Fox
Filed: 19 Mar 21
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Synthetic aperture radar imaging apparatus and methods
23 Mar 21
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is operable in an interrogation mode and in a self-imaging mode, the self-imaging mode entered in response to determining a response to interrogation pulses have been received from a ground terminal and position information specifying a ground location has been received from the ground terminal.
Peter Allen Fox
Filed: 23 Nov 16
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Synthetic Aperture Radar Apparatus and Methods
11 Feb 21
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system generates an image of a first swath.
Peter Allen FOX, Todd Thomas CHISHOLM, Julie NUTINI, Jaklyn Michele DE VOS
Filed: 21 Nov 18
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Apparatus and methods for synthetic aperture radar with digital beamforming
21 Dec 20
A digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mixes a first analog signal to generate a frequency-shifted first signal having a first spectral band, mixes a second analog signal to generate a frequency-shifted second signal having a second spectral band, positioned at a defined frequency offset from the first spectral band, and positioned non-overlapping relation with the first spectral band, combines the first and second frequency-shifted signals to generate a combined analog receive signal, and band-pass samples the combined analog receive signal to generate a digital baseband signal representative of the first and second analog signals.
Peter Allen Fox
Filed: 16 Mar 16
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Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Apparatus and Methods
6 May 20
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is operable in an interrogation mode and in an imaging mode, the imaging mode entered in response to determining a response to interrogation pulses have been received from a ground terminal and position information specifying a ground location has been received from the ground terminal.
Peter Allen Fox
Filed: 21 May 18
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Apparatus and Methods for a Synthetic Aperture Radar with Self-cueing
6 May 20
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system and method of operation advantageously implements dynamic self-cueing or autonomous cueing of successive high-resolution SAR data collection based on previously collected wide-swath SAR data, for instance without the intervention of ground-based resources.
Peter Allen Fox, Johannes Stephanus Steyn, Michael Richard Davenport
Filed: 21 May 18
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Efficient planar phased array antenna assembly
6 Apr 20
A planar phased array antenna assembly includes a first face sheet with a first plurality of radiating slots for a first frequency band and a second plurality of radiating slots for a second frequency band, a second face sheet, a third face sheet, and a structure interposed between the first and second face sheets with a third plurality of radiating elements at the first frequency band and a fourth plurality of radiating elements at the second frequency band, and a first feed network for the third plurality of radiating elements and a second feed network for the fourth plurality of radiating elements, and the second face sheet interposed between the structure and the third face sheet.
Peter Allen Fox, Abhijit Bhattacharya, Ying Chen, Rodney Grant Vaughan
Filed: 14 Jun 16
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Apparatus and Methods for a Synthetic Aperture Radar with Multi-aperture Antenna
1 Apr 20
A Spotlight SAR imaging mode is implemented by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system in which an SAR controller intentionally spoils a transmit beam of the SAR antenna to form a spoiled transmit beam.
Peter Allen Fox, Stephen Richard Lilley
Filed: 22 May 18
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Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Apparatus and Methods for Moving Targets
25 Mar 20
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system may employ SAR imaging to advantageously estimate or monitor a transit characteristic (e.g., velocity, acceleration) of a vehicle, for example a ground based vehicle or water based vehicle.
Peter Allen Fox, Keith Dennis Richard Beckett
Filed: 22 May 18
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