Abstract: A method for confusing the electronic signature of a signal transmitted by a radar, includes the generation by the radar of at least one pulse, wherein the method comprises a step of modulation, in the pulse, of the polarization of the transmitted signal, according to two orthogonal or opposite polarizations, the modulation of the polarization being performed according to a predetermined modulation code.

Abstract: With the device detecting and positioning the runway with respect to the aircraft, it includes at least: a radar sensor; a radar image collection system, collecting and tagging images acquired by radar sensors carried by aircraft during phases of landing on the runway under nominal conditions, the tagging of an image giving information about the positioning of the runway with respect to the aircraft carrying the sensor capturing the image; a neural network trained on the basis of the images that are tagged and collected during landings on the runway under nominal conditions, the network estimating the position of the runway with respect to the aircraft by virtue of the radar images acquired by the sensor during the current landing; a functional block utilizing and formatting the data about the positioning of the runway with respect to the aircraft and coming from the neural network in order to format the data in an adapted interface.

Abstract: The method uses a fleet of aircraft being equipped with at least one radar sensor, it includes at least: a step of collective collection of radar images by a set of aircraft (A1, . . . AN) of the fleet, the radar images being obtained by the radar sensors of the aircraft (A1, . . . AN) in nominal landing phases on the runway, a step wherein each image collected by an aircraft is labelled with at least information on the position of the runway relative to the aircraft, the labelled image being sent to a shared database and stored in the database; a step of learning by a neural network of the runway from the labelled images stored in the shared database, at the end of the step the neural network being trained; a step of sending of the trained neural network to at least one of the aircraft (A1).

Abstract: A radar comprises at least one array antenna composed of transmit sub-arrays and of receive sub-arrays, a transmit and receive system and processing means: the distribution of the transmit sub-arrays and receive sub-arrays is symmetric both with respect to a vertical axis and a horizontal axis; at least two transmit sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the vertical axis are the largest possible distance apart; at least two transmit sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis are the largest possible distance apart; at least two receive sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the vertical axis are the largest possible distance apart; at least two receive sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis are the largest possible distance apart; a first coding of the wave transmitted by the transmit sub-arrays carried out by frequency shifting of the ramps between the various transmit sub-arrays; a second coding of the wave transmitted by the transmit sub-arrays carried out by phase modulation f

Abstract: Radar equipped with a transmission antenna array and with a reception antenna array is provided, the measurement of the height h2 is obtained by estimating the frequency of at least one time-dependent amplitude modulation produced on the reception antenna array, the modulation generated by the interference of the signals received directly from the target and the signals received after reflection on the ground, on the basis of the signals transmitted by the transmission antenna array.

Abstract: This method involves, for an array of at least two antennas pointing in different directions and the respective radiation patterns of which overlap one another, each antenna including at least two radiating elements so as to be able to work in a first operating mode associated with a first radiation pattern (?) and according to a second operating mode associated with a second radiation pattern (?): acquiring, for each antenna, a first signal (S?i) corresponding to the first operating mode and a second signal (S?i) corresponding to the second operating mode; determining, for each antenna, an opening half-angle (?i) of a cone of possible directions of incidence from the amplitude of the first and second signals; calculating the bearing angle (?0) and/or the elevation angle (?0) of the direction of incidence by intersection of the cones of possible directions of incidence determined for each antenna.

Abstract: A radar attached laterally to airplane fuselage to detect obstacles on a collision course with a portion of the airplane facing the radar. The radar includes an emission antennal channel and reception antennal channels in the same plane. The radar Establishing in a radar coordinate system a first distance/Doppler map allowing echoes to be separated into distance and Doppler resolution cells in reception antennal channels; Establishing a second distance/Doppler map of smaller size by selecting a subset of distance/Doppler resolution cells corresponding to possible positions of targets liable to collide with the airplane; Establishing new distance/Doppler maps by forming beams computationally from the subsets of distance resolution cells; and Temporal integration, in each beam, of successive distance/Doppler maps.

Abstract: A receiving device comprises an analogue reception filter designed for a given frequency band included in the entire operating band of radar, the device further comprising a digital filter able to separate the received signals depending on their frequency, one portion of the frequency band of the given frequency band allocated to the radar reception function and another portion allocated to an RESM reception function.

Abstract: A detection method implementing an FMCW waveform is provided, the emitted waveform is formed of a recurring pattern of given period Tr covering an emission frequency band of given width B, each pattern being divided into a given number P of sub-patterns of duration Tr/P covering an excursion frequency band ?F=B/P, the sub-patterns being mutually spaced by a frequency interval equal to ?F.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an angle of arrival of a received radioelectric signal implemented by a receiving antenna system including either one rotating antenna having at least two receiving channels, or two rotating antennas with a same speed each having a receiving channel, and having different antenna diagrams.

Abstract: A digital receiver comprising at least two reception pathways, the method carries out a digital inter-correlation of the signals obtained as output from at least two filters of different central frequencies and different ranks, the rank and the central frequency of the filters being chosen as a function of a determined frequency-wise search domain. For a determined search domain, the various sampling frequencies of the reception pathways are chosen so that the ambiguous frequencies resulting from the spectral aliasings vary as a monotonic function of the true frequency of the signals.

Abstract: The present invention concern a method for eliminating in a radar signal a first signal coming from an on-board radar (10), the method comprising the steps of: providing a replica of the signal emitted by the on-board radar (10), receiving a signal, the received signal being the sum of a first signal depending on the signal emitted by the on-board radar (10) and of a second signal independent of the signal emitted by the on-board radar (10), the first signal being a linear combination of elementary signals each having an amplitude coefficient and a delay relative to the signal emitted by the on-board radar (10), determining the amplitude coefficients and the delays of the elementary signals of the first signal, and eliminating, in the processed received signal, the first signal to obtain the second signal.

Abstract: A method for jamming airborne SAR radar implemented by a jamming device includes at least two cooperating units surrounding an area on the ground to be protected, at least two units providing a radar-detection function and at least one unit providing a radar-jamming function, each unit being interlinked by a two-way data link and being synchronized by a common clock, the method comprises a step of identifying the signals received and whether the received signals correspond to SAR signals; a step of characterizing the received SAR signal over a short duration; a step of computing a filter adapted to the signal; a step of carrying out pulse compression of the signal; a step of iteratively periodically characterizing the signal over a long duration; a step of computing the jamming signals to be transmitted; a step of transmitting the jamming signals.

Abstract: A method comprises at least: a first radar processing for locating and estimating the trajectory of a target on the basis of measurements of radial distances, of Doppler frequency and of angle of azimuth and of elevation of the target arising from a radar signal emitted towards the target; a second radar processing of location and of trajectory of the target along a vertical axis, by applying the principle of the inverse synthetic antenna; the disparity between the given trajectory and the trajectory estimated by the first processing, projected on a horizontal plane, and the disparity between the given trajectory and the trajectory estimated by the second processing according to the vertical axis being used to control the direction of displacement of the target.

Abstract: A receiving device comprises an analogue reception filter designed for a given frequency band included in the entire operating band of radar, the device further comprising a digital filter able to separate the received signals depending on their frequency, one portion of the frequency band of the given frequency band allocated to the radar reception function and another portion allocated to an RESM reception function.

Abstract: A radar comprises at least one array antenna composed of transmit sub-arrays and of receive sub-arrays, a transmit and receive system and processing means: the distribution of the transmit sub-arrays and receive sub-arrays is symmetric both with respect to a vertical axis and a horizontal axis; at least two transmit sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the vertical axis are the largest possible distance apart; at least two transmit sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis are the largest possible distance apart; at least two receive sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the vertical axis are the largest possible distance apart; at least two receive sub-arrays symmetric with respect to the horizontal axis are the largest possible distance apart; a first coding of the wave transmitted by the transmit sub-arrays carried out by frequency shifting of the ramps between the various transmit sub-arrays; a second coding of the wave transmitted by the transmit sub-arrays carried out by phase modulation f

Abstract: A detection method implementing an FMCW waveform is provided, the emitted waveform is formed of a recurring pattern of given period Tr covering an emission frequency band of given width B, each pattern being divided into a given number P of sub-patterns of duration Tr/P covering an excursion frequency band ?F=B/P, the sub-patterns being mutually spaced by a frequency interval equal to ?F.

Abstract: Radar equipped with a transmission antenna array and with a reception antenna array is provided, the measurement of the height h2 is obtained by estimating the frequency of at least one time-dependent amplitude modulation produced on the reception antenna array, the modulation generated by the interference of the signals received directly from the target and the signals received after reflection on the ground, on the basis of the signals transmitted by the transmission antenna array.

Abstract: This method involves, for an array of at least two antennas pointing in different directions and the respective radiation patterns of which overlap one another, each antenna including at least two radiating elements so as to be able to work in a first operating mode associated with a first radiation pattern (?) and according to a second operating mode associated with a second radiation pattern (?): acquiring, for each antenna, a first signal (S?i) corresponding to the first operating mode and a second signal (S?i) corresponding to the second operating mode; determining, for each antenna, an opening half-angle (?i) of a cone of possible directions of incidence from the amplitude of the first and second signals; calculating the bearing angle (?0) and/or the elevation angle (?0) of the direction of incidence by intersection of the cones of possible directions of incidence determined for each antenna.

Abstract: A digital receiver comprising at least two reception pathways, the method carries out a digital inter-correlation of the signals obtained as output from at least two filters of different central frequencies and different ranks, the rank and the central frequency of the filters being chosen as a function of a determined frequency-wise search domain. For a determined search domain, the various sampling frequencies of the reception pathways are chosen so that the ambiguous frequencies resulting from the spectral aliasings vary as a monotonic function of the true frequency of the signals.