Automatic Radar Range Control
AssigneeTocaro Blue LLC
InventorAustin Gurley
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Abstract
A radar system may include a radar antenna and a radar controller. The radar controller may be configured to determine a surrounding land boundary map for a vessel based on shoreline data and generate a land distance data array based on radar ray information for a plurality of radar rays provided by the radar antenna under the control of the radar controller. The radar controller may also be configured to determine a statistical distance measurement to land based on the land distance data array, determine a land overlap of a current radar range setting and scale the statistical distance measurement based on the land overlap to determine a scaled statistical distance measurement, and automatically adjust the radar range from the current radar range setting based on the scaled statistical distance measurement.
Claims20
A radar system comprising:
- a radar antenna;
- and
- a radar controller configured to:
- determine a surrounding land boundary map for a vessel based on shoreline data;
- generate a land distance data array based on radar ray information for a plurality of radar rays provided by the radar antenna under the control of the radar controller, wherein the radar ray information comprises, for each radar ray in a plurality of radar rays, an angle the ray from the vessel, a range of the ray to a first land hit, and first land hit coordinate information;
- determine a statistical distance measurement to land based on the land distance data array;
- determine a land overlap of a current radar range setting and scale the statistical distance measurement based on the land overlap to determine a scaled statistical distance measurement;
- and
- automatically adjust a radar range setting from the current radar range setting based on the scaled statistical distance measurement.
A radar controller comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the radar controller to:
- determine a surrounding land boundary map for a vessel based on shoreline data;
- generate a land distance data array based on radar ray information for a plurality of radar rays provided by the radar antenna under the control of the radar controller, wherein the radar ray information comprises, for each radar ray in a plurality of radar rays, an angle the ray from the vessel, a range of the ray to a first land hit, and first land hit coordinate information;
- determine a statistical distance measurement to land based on the land distance data array;
- determine a land overlap of a current radar range setting and scale the statistical distance measurement based on the land overlap to determine a scaled statistical distance measurement;
- automatically adjust a radar range setting from the current radar range setting based on the scaled statistical distance measurement.
A method for automatically setting a range for a radar system comprising:
- determining a surrounding land boundary map for a vessel based on shoreline data;
- generating, by a radar controller, a land distance data array based on radar ray information for a plurality of radar rays provided by the radar antenna under the control of the radar controller, wherein the radar ray information comprises, for each radar ray in a plurality of radar rays, an angle the ray from the vessel, a range of the ray to a first land hit, and first land hit coordinate information;
- determining a statistical distance measurement to land based on the land distance data array;
- determining a land overlap of a current radar range setting and scale the statistical distance measurement based on the land overlap to determine a scaled statistical distance measurement;
- automatically adjusting a radar range setting from the current radar range setting based on the scaled statistical distance measurement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.