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7619556 |
System and method for synthesizing localizer and glide slope deviations from weather radar
The present invention is a method for obtaining a localizer deviation and a glide slope deviation for an aircraft. The method may include directing electromagnetic signals from a weather radar...
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7616150 |
Null steering system and method for terrain estimation
A weather radar system coupled to a weather radar antenna, including a receive circuit for receiving radar returns received by the antenna and a processor for summing portions of the radar return...
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7609200 |
Radar derived perspective display system
An aircraft-based terrain display system includes a radar system configured to measure terrain data in proximity to an aircraft. The system further includes a memory coupled to the radar system and...
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7605744 |
Method for extension of unambiguous range and velocity of a weather radar
A method for extension of unambiguous range and velocity of a weather radar. To avoid pulse overlaying, the pulse repetition time of a single pulse can be extended such that any return echo will...
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7598902 |
Adaptive weather radar detection system and method used in continental and maritime environments
A method of detecting weather using a weather radar onboard an aircraft. A range is selected at which weather is to be detected. A tilt angle of the weather radar is changed to detect weather below...
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7598901 |
System for measuring turbulence remotely
A system and method for detecting turbulence includes several mobile platforms, a mobile platform velocity sensor, and several electromagnetic energy transmitters and receivers. The receivers...
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7583222 |
Method for using pulse compression in weather radar
A system and method for processing data related to weather phenomena in a meteorological radar system. The method includes receiving an echo signal generated by transmitting a long pulse and...
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7579977 |
Method of measuring the speed of air by doppler radar
A method of measuring the speed of air in a zone of the atmosphere by the Doppler effect by means of a radar, the method comprising the steps of transmitting bursts of three pulses at different...
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7576680 |
Pulse pattern for weather phenomenon and incursion detection system and method
An aircraft radar system includes a radar antenna and a processing device. The processing device receives returns from the radar antenna associated with the scan. The processing device uses the...
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7561067 |
Airspeed / wind speed measurement device for aircraft, and display device for same
A measurement system for an aircraft having the three-axis components of the airspeed of the aircraft, the three-axis components of the wind speed currently encountered by the aircraft, and the...
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7541971 |
Automatic bright band detection and compensation
A weather radar system has bright band detection and compensation. The weather radar system determines that high reflectivity in weather is a bright band and reduces an encoded return level from...
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7541970 |
Weather radar with spurious reflection lobe mitigation
A weather radar system is capable of mitigating the effects of spurious reflections caused by a reflection lobe. Processing electronics can be used to sense weather and to identify spurious...
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7535403 |
Method of determining the velocity field of an air mass by high resolution doppler analysis
A high resolution Doppler analysis of a radiofrequency signal is exemplified by the analysis of air mass movement using meteorological radar. A high resolution spectral analysis method for a...
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7528765 |
Variable loop gain and resolution pulse system and method with point target editing capability
A weather radar system is coupled to an antenna. The weather radar system includes a processor for controlling pulses provided to the antenna and for processing return pulses received by the...
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7525448 |
Enhanced vision system and method for an aircraft
An aircraft optical display system for implementing an enhanced vision system based on weather conditions is described. The display system includes a plurality of imaging sensors configured to...
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7515088 |
Weather radar detection system and method that is adaptive to weather characteristics
A method of detecting weather on an aircraft uses a weather radar system. The method includes determining a classification of weather and automatically adjusting the weather radar system in...
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7515087 |
Weather radar system and method using data from a lightning sensor
A weather radar system or method can be utilized to determine a location of a weather hazard for an aircraft. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna. The...
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7502689 |
Determination of an atmospheric state
A method for characterizing a state of a planetary atmosphere or of a part of the atmosphere, especially of the ionosphere of the earth includes determining values of an ionization state,...
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7495598 |
Methods and systems for avoidance of partial pulse interference in radar
Systems and methods for avoidance of partial pulse interference in radar. The systems and methods include a radar processor for generating control signals that direct the generation and...
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7492305 |
Weather profile display system and method with uncertainty indication
A weather radar system includes processing electronics. The processing electronics sense weather and determine an uncertainty factor. A display can provide visual indicia of the uncertainty factor...
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7486220 |
Storm top detection and prediction
A method of predicting storm cell characteristics at a future time is provided. A value relating to a characteristic of the storm cell is determined from reflectivity data processed from signals...
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7486219 |
Adaptive weather radar detection system and method
A method of detecting weather on an aircraft uses a weather radar system. The method adapts the weather radar system in accordance with a seasonal parameter, a time-of-day parameter, or a location...
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7453375 |
Methods and apparatus for navigation of airspace, weather, terrain, and traffic
Methods and apparatus are provided for airspace navigation. Airspace navigation information for an aircraft is displayed in a first mode, such as, in a horizontal mode. One or more navigation...
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7427943 |
Method of generating three-dimensional weather information from airborne weather radar imagery
A method of displaying real-time, three-dimensional weather information is disclosed. A first representation of a weather event along a first plane is generated from data obtained from a first...
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7417579 |
Weather radar with significance determination
A weather radar system includes processing electronics. The processing electronics sense weather and determine significant weather based upon the altitude of the weather. The altitude of the...
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7417578 |
Removal of spurious aircraft detections on weather radar
A weather radar detects and removes spurious aircraft from a weather radar display by using one of the methods of differentiating radar return length, estimating a vertical gradient of...
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7411541 |
Systems and methods for presenting vertical weather information on plan view displays
Systems and methods for presenting vertical weather information on plan view displays. An example method retrieves weather radar return information stored in a volumetric buffer and determines if a...
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7365675 |
Measuring wind vectors remotely using airborne radar
Airborne meteorological radars and related networks and models. In one embodiment a network for creating a meteorological model includes a mobile sensing node and a modeling node. The sensing node...
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7365674 |
Airborne weather profiler network
Apparatus and methods for remotely sensing meteorological conditions and for building models from the sensed conditions. More particularly, networks and systems are provided for gathering remotely...
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7352317 |
Data compression system and method for a weather radar system
A method of compressing data in a weather radar system utilizes a compression system. Weather radar data associated with graphical images provided on a weather radar display is compressed for...
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7327285 |
System and method for eliminating terrain color confusion in aircraft displays
An improved system and method for eliminating terrain color confusion in aircraft displays are disclosed. An aircraft display system is described that includes a database for storing terrain data,...
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7307583 |
Antenna adjustment system and method for an aircraft weather radar system
A weather radar system or method can be utilized to adjust a position of a weather radar system. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna control system....
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7307577 |
Storm top detection
A method of characterizing a maximum height of a storm cell for an aircraft is provided. First reflectivity data formed from a first scan of a storm cell by a radar is received and a first centroid...
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7307576 |
Hazardous and non-hazardous weather identification system and method
A weather radar system or method can be utilized to determine non-hazardous weather region for an aircraft. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an antenna. The...
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7292178 |
Aircraft hazard detection and alerting in terminal areas
A weather radar system or method can be utilized to determine potential weather hazard for an aircraft in a terminal area. The weather radar system can utilize processing electronics coupled to an...
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7242343 |
Directed sequential hazard assessment weather radar
A directed sequential hazard assessment weather radar system detects weather and hazards with low latency and high confidence in a hazard detection mode to detect a region of reflectivity and...
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7209070 |
System and method for enhanced situational awareness of terrain in a vertical situation display
A vertical situation display (“VSD”) system according to the invention generates a terrain image that represents a profile view of terrain elevation relative to the position of an aircraft...
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7205928 |
Automatic weather radar system and method
Methods and apparatus are provided for operating a radar system to provide a thunderstorm image to a pilot. The method comprises using one or more radar scans depending upon the aircraft altitude,...
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7161525 |
Turbulence display presentation
A method of displaying areas of turbulent weather is disclosed. Data is processed representative of weather conditions within a predefined area. Weather conditions are displayed on a display....
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7158072 |
Ethernet connection of airborne radar over fiber optic cable
A weather radar signal path for an aircraft. The signal path has an antenna, a digital down-converter, a first transceiver, fiber optic cabling, a second transceiver and a processing unit. The...
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7132974 |
Methods and systems for estimating three dimensional distribution of turbulence intensity using radar measurements
Methods, systems, and computer program products for storing turbulence radar return data into a three-dimensional buffer. The method involves modeling the radar signal scattering properties of...
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7129885 |
Adaptive weather radar detection system and method used in continental and maritime environments
A method of adapting weather radar thresholds is disclosed. The method comprises generating a location from a location sensor, retrieving information representative of a weather type from a...
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7109913 |
Airborne weather radar system and radar display
An airborne weather radar system that detects potentially hazardous weather conditions associated with storms and includes a radar display featuring visual indications of these conditions. The...
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7109912 |
Weather radar hazard detection system and method
An aircraft weather radar system is disclosed. The system comprises a radar antenna, aircraft sensors, and a database. The system also comprises a processing device receiving information from the...
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7095364 |
Altitude measurement system and associated methods
An altitude measuring system and method for aircraft is provided. The altitude measuring system includes altitude sensors for providing data to an altitude processing unit. The altitude processing...
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7095359 |
Method of observing sea ice
An ice thickness/drifting velocity observation of sea ice by using an ice thickness measurement sonar and a current meter moored into the sea and a sea ice observation by a high-resolution airborne...
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7065443 |
System and method for estimating aircraft flight delay
A method and system estimate, in real time, the amount of any delay in departure of an aircraft flight from an airport. Various embodiments include receiving in a first computer process a...
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7042387 |
Systems and methods for displaying hazards
A system, according to various aspects of the present invention, provides a presentation to a hazard display. The system includes a memory having surveillance data and a processor. The processor...
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7039367 |
Communications using unmanned surface vehicles and unmanned micro-aerial vehicles
A communications system and method utilizes an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) capable of collecting data about an environment in which the USV resides. At least one micro-aerial vehicle (MAV),...
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7019682 |
Imaging millimeter wave radar system
An imaging millimeter wave radar system. The system includes a millimeter wave transmitter transmitting a frequency scanned millimeter beam that is narrow in the scanned direction and wide in a...
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