Tracking moving radar targets with parallel, velocity-tuned filters
Abstract
Radar data associated with radar illumination of a movable target is processed to monitor motion of the target. A plurality of filter operations are performed in parallel on the radar data so that each filter operation produces target image information. The filter operations are defined to have respectively corresponding velocity ranges that differ from one another. The target image information produced by one of the filter operations represents the target more accurately than the target image information produced by the remainder of the filter operations when a current velocity of the target is within the velocity range associated with the one filter operation. In response to the current velocity of the target being within the velocity range associated with the one filter operation, motion of the target is tracked based on the target image information produced by the one filter operation.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1083589
- Patent Number(s):
- 8427359
- Application Number:
- 12/985,383
- Assignee:
- Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
Citation Formats
Bickel, Douglas L., Harmony, David W., Bielek, Timothy P., Hollowell, Jeff A., Murray, Margaret S., and Martinez, Ana. Tracking moving radar targets with parallel, velocity-tuned filters. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web.
Bickel, Douglas L., Harmony, David W., Bielek, Timothy P., Hollowell, Jeff A., Murray, Margaret S., & Martinez, Ana. Tracking moving radar targets with parallel, velocity-tuned filters. United States.
Bickel, Douglas L., Harmony, David W., Bielek, Timothy P., Hollowell, Jeff A., Murray, Margaret S., and Martinez, Ana. Tue .
"Tracking moving radar targets with parallel, velocity-tuned filters". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1083589.
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abstractNote = {Radar data associated with radar illumination of a movable target is processed to monitor motion of the target. A plurality of filter operations are performed in parallel on the radar data so that each filter operation produces target image information. The filter operations are defined to have respectively corresponding velocity ranges that differ from one another. The target image information produced by one of the filter operations represents the target more accurately than the target image information produced by the remainder of the filter operations when a current velocity of the target is within the velocity range associated with the one filter operation. In response to the current velocity of the target being within the velocity range associated with the one filter operation, motion of the target is tracked based on the target image information produced by the one filter operation.},
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