Timothy Lee Moore

US Patent:

20200124721, Apr 23, 2020

Filed:

Oct 2, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/590608

Inventors:

- Fort Belvoir VA, US
Timothy R. Moore - Alexandria VA, US
Peter M. Gugino - Fairfax Station VA, US
Brett T. Smith - Arlington VA, US
Mehrdad Soumekh - Bethesda MD, US
Murray S. Korman - Annapolis MD, US
Kathryn P. Kirkwood - Bel Air MD, US

International Classification:

G01S 15/04
G01S 15/93

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.