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- Patent Title: Interferometric synthetic aperture acoustic imager
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Application No.: US16590608Application Date: 2019-10-02
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Publication No.: US11550052B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Steven S. Bishop , Timothy R. Moore , Peter M. Gugino , Robert H. Luke, III , Brett T. Smith , Mehrdad Soumekh , Murray S. Korman , Kathryn P. Kirkwood
- Applicant: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Applicant Address: US VA Fort Belvoir
- Assignee: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Current Assignee: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Fort Belvoir
- Agent Richard J. Kim
- Main IPC: G01S15/04
- IPC: G01S15/04 ; G01S15/931 ; G01S7/534

Abstract:
An interferometric synthetic aperture acoustic imager is disclosed. Specifically, an acoustic imaging system includes an acoustic transmitter, an acoustic receiver array, a signal processing system, a navigation data system, and a meteorological data system. The acoustic transmitter and the acoustic receiver array are mounted on transceiver array. The navigation data system includes a Position and Orientation System for Land Vehicles system which receives data from two Global Positioning System antennas, an inertial measurement unit, and a wheel encoder mounted on a vehicle wheel. The system also includes meteorological data system that records temperature, relative humidity, and barometric pressure. The meteorological data may be used to adjust the received acoustic data based on atmospheric conditions.
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