METHOD FOR GENERATING A RADIO THERMAL IMAGE Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC G01S13/89 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to passive radio-thermal-location systems (RTLS) for monitoring millimeter wavelengths, intended for generating a radio thermal image of objects in the field of view. Technical result is achieved by applying a method for generating a radio thermal image, which consists in scanning the survey zone by a radiometer antenna in azimuth and at elevation angle, forming the observation matrix Y according to the scanning results, its processing by the R₁ recovery operator and obtaining matrix Y₁= R₁[Y] of the radio thermal image, wherein the radiometer is combined with the camera, which gives matrix X₁ of the optical image of the field of view at the central position of the antenna. In matrix X₁, the scale is replaced by correspondence to the scale of matrix Y₁ and matrix X₂, which, with the help of operator R₂ is obtained and subjected to segmentation operations by contrast of the sum of the amplitudes of the corresponding elements of matrices Y₁ and X₂, taken with certain weight coefficients, and label matrix S = R₂[Y₁,X₂] is obtained, where number s of the segment is assigned to each i-th, j-th element to which it belongs. Then, by averaging the elements of matrix Y₁ with label s, the average radiometric amplitude of each s-th segment is determined and this amplitude is assigned to the elements of matrix X₂ with the same label s, as a result according to matrix X₂ a radiometric image matrix with an increased spatial resolution is obtained.

EFFECT: achieved technical result is an opportunity on the basis of a scanning radiometer to form a radio thermal image of the field of view with a spatial resolution corresponding to the dimensions of the elements of the desired image matrix.

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