Research/Patents/US 4953143
US 4953143Tier 3 — General Defense

MULTIPLE FREQUENCY SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR

Assignee

US Government

Filed as: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

Filed

Jan 12, 1981

Granted

Aug 28, 1990

Location

Arlington VA (defense contractors)

Abstract

A dual frequency, synthetic aperture, sonar system includes a transmitter r projecting insonifying pings alternatively at first and second frequencies and a linear receiving array carried by a vehicle so as to receive returns from said pings. The first and second frequency returns are separated and subjected to processing in parallel channels where they are resolved into in-phase and quadrature components for subsequent phase-error correction, coherent addition, and synthetic aperture beamforming.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Aug 12, 1982

Rescinded

Feb 21, 1990

Duration

7 years, 6 months

Inventor

  • 1FRANCIS J. HIGGINS

Sensitive facility: Arlington VA (defense contractors)

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