METHOD FOR DETECTION BY LONG INTEGRATION AND CORRESPONDING RADAR SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20200166605A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-28

    申请号:US16692970

    申请日:2019-11-22

    申请人: THALES

    IPC分类号: G01S7/292 G01S13/56 G01S13/91

    摘要: Upon each new detection, called pivot detection, by a radar system, the method includes the steps consisting of: grouping together, with the pivot detection, grouped detections, defined as detections that belong to a sweep preceding the sweep of the pivot detection and that have a non-nil probability according to a grouping criterion; filtering the grouped detections so as to keep only detections that are kinematically strictly coherent with the pivot detection, by: initializing a histogram, each dimension of which is a temporal variation of a coordinate measured by the radar system; computing a potential value interval for each coordinate of the pivot detection and each grouped detection; computing a minimum temporal variation and a maximum temporal variation for the or each coordinate from potential value intervals of the pivot detection and each grouped detection; incrementing the set of classes of the histogram whose index along each dimension is located between the computed minimum and maximum temporal variations; and detecting a target once at least one class of the histogram reaches a predefined value.

    Method for determining detecting thresholds of a constant false alarm rate device of a sensor and associated devices and method

    公开(公告)号:US20240203239A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18544718

    申请日:2023-12-19

    申请人: THALES

    IPC分类号: G08B29/18

    CPC分类号: G08B29/185

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method for determining detection thresholds of a CFAR detection system of a sensor observing an environment, the CFAR detection system being provided with an estimator adapted to determine an estimate of parameters related to noise affecting the sensor depending on parameters related to the environment, the method comprising the steps of:



    estimation of parameters related to noises, in order to obtain a parameter vector,
    computation of first detection thresholds so that, for all possible configurations of the parameter vector, the CFAR detection system operates at a predefined false alarm probability,
    characterization of estimation errors of the estimator, and
    correction of each first detection threshold in order to obtain second detection thresholds, the step of correcting taking into account the error parameters.

    METHOD FOR MEASURING WAVE HEIGHT BY MEANS OF AN AIRBORNE RADAR

    公开(公告)号:US20210223385A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US15734667

    申请日:2019-06-13

    申请人: THALES

    IPC分类号: G01S13/88 G01B15/02

    摘要: A method for determining wave height by means of a radar carried by an aircraft, the method implementing the following steps: a first step of pointing the antenna of the radar; a second step of determining the clutter acquisition plan according to the altitude of the aircraft; a third step of determining, for each clutter zone defined by the acquisition plan, two Doppler parameters PARA1 and PARA2 characterising the zone as a whole; a fourth step of calculating the average values of the parameters PARA1 and PARA2 over all of the zones in question; and a fifth step of estimating the wave height from the averages of the parameters PARA1 and PARA2. The wave height estimated in this way is transmitted to the aircraft and used to determine the conditions for the water landing of the aircraft.

    Method for determining the performance of a constant false alarm rate device of a sensor and associated devices and method

    公开(公告)号:US20240203238A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-20

    申请号:US18537800

    申请日:2023-12-13

    申请人: THALES

    IPC分类号: G08B29/04

    CPC分类号: G08B29/04

    摘要: A method for measuring the performance of a CFAR detection system of a sensor in observing an environment, the CFAR detection system being provided with an estimator suitable for determining an estimate of parameters related to noise affecting the sensor depending on parameters related to the environment, the measurement method including estimating noise-related parameters, obtaining detection thresholds for the CFAR detection system, characterizing estimation errors of the estimator of the CFAR detection system, determining each detection threshold likely to be actually used by the CFAR system due to estimation errors, and calculating the performance of the CFAR detection system on the basis of the detection thresholds determined.