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Pulse radar method and apparatus for detecting an object

US4896116A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 23, 1988
Grant dateJan 23, 1990
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Expiry dateMay 23, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S13/885
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An object detection method and apparatus in which, in order to distinguish only an echo wave which is returned back from an object of interest, such as an underground buried object, from those echo waves returned back from another object of objects, the observation signal is divided (an electromagnetic wave as an echo wave) into portions, and the signal portion is converted into a corresponding frequency region to evaluate that spectral distribution and computes frequency parameter values from the spectrum distribution. The object of interest is detected by comparing the reference data of various fields with the parameters of the object of interest, extracting only an echo wave returned back from the object of interest and displaying a corresponding image.

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