Abstract: A method of eliminating spurious echoes in SAR imaging comprises a step Etp1 of defining the SAR imaging parameters, a step Etp2 of calculating the spectrum of the signal received, in each distance bin, of a zone of interest 51, a step Etp3 of filtering the spectra in each distance bin, a step Etp4 of SAR imagette 51 formation and a step Etp5 of concatenating the SAR imagettes 51 to form the final SAR image.

Abstract: A method of eliminating spurious echoes in SAR imaging comprises a step Etp1 of defining the SAR imaging parameters, a step Etp2 of calculating the spectrum of the signal received, in each distance bin, of a zone of interest 51, a step Etp3 of filtering the spectra in each distance bin, a step Etp4 of SAR imagette 51 formation and a step EtpS of concatenating the SAR imagettes 51 to form the final SAR image.

Abstract: A method of estimating the angular position ?c of a target detected by a radar equipping a mobile carrier and emitting, via an steerable antenna, a signal, in the form of pulses, towards the target and receiving echoes from the reflection of said signal on the target, comprises: estimating, for each pulse or group of pulses of time index i, the angular position ?(i) of the antenna; estimating, for each pulse or group of pulses of time index i, the Doppler frequency fD(i) of the echo or echoes received; pairing, for each pulse or group of pulses of time index i, the angular position ?(i) and the Doppler frequency fD(i); and, estimating the angular position ?c at least by solving the equation ? ? ? f D ? ( i ) 2 = V a ? sin ? ? ? ? ( i ) ? ( ? c - ? ? ( i ) ) + V r , c , where ? is the wavelength of the radar, Va is the norm of the speed of the carrier and Vr,c is the radial speed of the target.

Abstract: A method for processing signals of an airborne radar includes a correction of the erroneous angle of pointing of the radar beam, comprising an evaluation of the error in the pointing angle for a constant height of the aerial transporter. For a given angle of scan, the method carries out at least two series of measurements of the power of the echoes returned following the emission of radar signals, each series being associated with a given distance-bin, the measurements being dependent on the angle of pointing of the radar antenna, formulates a vertical profile of the power of the echoes returned for each series of measurements, and then on the basis of each vertical profile, measures the pointing angle corresponding to a power of the echoes returned by the ground alone, and calculates the error in the pointing angle on the basis of the measured pointing angles.

Abstract: A radar emission-reception method including a step of cyclic emission of a group of pulses of different frequency, each frequency being emitted on a different channel and each cycle comprises a single emission phase and a single listening phase and a reception step during which the echoes of each emitted pulse are processed simultaneously and in parallel in different reception frequency channels. Also, a radar making it possible to implement the emission-reception method.

Abstract: The invention targets a method of processing a radar image obtained from a radar. It comprises an automatic evaluation of the altitude of the isotherm at zero degrees Celsius, called zero isotherm, using a processing of the reflectivity information (rf(px)) conveyed by pixels (px) forming all or part of the radar image.

Abstract: A method of estimating the angular position ?c of a target detected by a radar equipping a mobile carrier and emitting, via an steerable antenna, a signal, in the form of pulses, towards the target and receiving echoes from the reflection of said signal on the target, comprises: estimating, for each pulse or group of pulses of time index i, the angular position ?(i) of the antenna; estimating, for each pulse or group of pulses of time index i, the Doppler frequency fD(i) of the echo or echoes received; pairing, for each pulse or group of pulses of time index i, the angular position ?(i) and the Doppler frequency fD(i); and, estimating the angular position ?c at least by solving the equation ? ? ? f D ? ( i ) 2 = V a ? sin ? ? ? ? ( i ) ? ( ? c - ? ? ( i ) ) + V r , c , where ? is the wavelength of the radar, Va is the norm of the speed of the carrier and Vr,c is the radial speed of the target.

Abstract: The method processes measured vertical profiles of the power of the echoes returned following a transmission of radar signals, each measured vertical profile being a function of the sweep angle of the radar beam and associated with a given pointing angle/distance box pair of the radar beam. The method generates a synthetic vertical profile of the power of the echoes returned by the ground only, and includes, for each measured vertical profile: superposition of the synthetic vertical profile on the measured vertical profile in question, for various values of the sweep angle, calculation of the error that exists between the measured vertical profile and the synthetic vertical profile, for each sweep angle value in question, and an exclusion, from the measured vertical profile, of the values for which the calculated error is less than a given threshold, in order to generate a resultant vertical profile with no ground echoes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of characterizing the convection intensity of a cloud by a meteorological radar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for angularly refining the antenna beam of a radar. The antenna performs M pointings along an axis, a signal being received by the antenna for each of said pointings, each of said signals being, on account of the shape of the antenna pattern, formed by the sum of signals reflected by several contributors distributed over the space scanned by the antenna beam, the method determining an estimation of the real-reflectivity vector w of N contributors by performing an inverse filtering on the vector s of the M signals received signals, said inverse filtering being established as a function of the known shape of the antenna pattern. The invention applies notably to airborne radars, and more particularly to meteorological radars.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of characterizing the convection intensity of a cloud by a meteorological radar.

Abstract: A method for processing signals of an airborne radar includes a correction of the erroneous angle of pointing of the radar beam, comprising an evaluation of the error in the pointing angle for a constant height of the aerial transporter. For a given angle of scan, the method carrys out at least two series of measurements of the power of the echoes returned following the emission of radar signals, each series being associated with a given distance-bin, the measurements being dependent on the angle of pointing of the radar antenna, formulates a vertical profile of the power of the echoes returned for each series of measurements, and then on the basis of each vertical profile, measures the pointing angle corresponding to a power of the echoes returned by the ground alone, and calculates the error in the pointing angle on the basis of the measured pointing angles.

Abstract: The method processes measured vertical profiles of the power of the echoes returned following a transmission of radar signals, each measured vertical profile being a function of the sweep angle of the radar beam and associated with a given pointing angle/distance box pair of the radar beam. The method generates a synthetic vertical profile of the power of the echoes returned by the ground only, and includes, for each measured vertical profile: superposition of the synthetic vertical profile on the measured vertical profile in question, for various values of the sweep angle, calculation of the error that exists between the measured vertical profile and the synthetic vertical profile, for each sweep angle value in question, and an exclusion, from the measured vertical profile, of the values for which the calculated error is less than a given threshold, in order to generate a resultant vertical profile with no ground echoes.

Abstract: The invention targets a method of processing a radar image obtained from a radar. It comprises an automatic evaluation of the altitude of the isotherm at zero degrees Celsius, called zero isotherm, using a processing of the reflectivity information (rf(px)) conveyed by pixels (px) forming all or part of the radar image.