Guillermo R Jimenez

US Patent:

20120050090, Mar 1, 2012

Filed:

Aug 31, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/873208

Inventors:

William Rudnisky - Los Angeles CA, US
Guillermo Jimenez - Lake Forest CA, US
James J. Hiroshige - Hawthorne CA, US

International Classification:

G01S 13/00

US Classification:

342 73

Abstract:

A device and method for wide area surveillance of a geographic region includes identifying a search space associated with a geographic region having a plurality of sub-regions. The search space is divided into a plurality of search cells and observation data is collected for each of the plurality of search cells based on a scan of the geographic region. An event generation rate is calculated for each of the search cells based on the collected observation data. One or more of the sub-regions are identified as a region(s) of interest based on the calculated event generation rates. A coverage pattern is estimated for each of the sub-regions and a desired revisit rate is calculated for the region of interest based on the estimated coverage pattern. The desired revisit rate is then output for scanning the region of interest.