Abstract: A system for determining the location of a man-made object based upon symmetry of the object comprising a receiver configured to receive radar signals comprising cross-polarized and co-polarized responses; at least one processor configured to combine the horizontal-horizontal polarimetric responses and vertical-vertical polarimetric responses to form co-polarimetric images and operate on one or both of the vertical-horizontal polarimetric responses and horizontal-vertical polarimetric responses to form cross-polarized images; the at least one processor configured to process the co-polarized and cross-polarized images to locate areas of interest containing a maximum in the co-pol image and a null state in the co-pol image indicating the potential detection of a man-made object; the at least one processor being configured to filter data using buffer regions and/or skipping of pixels in the vicinity of an area of interest. A method for detection of man-made objects is also disclosed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 3, 2017
Publication date:
February 22, 2018
Applicant:
United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Army Research Laboratory)
Inventors:
Kenneth Irving Ranney, David Chun Wong, Tuan That Ton