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7372394 Variable loop gain and resolution pulse system and method with point target editing capability  
A weather radar system is coupled to antenna. The weather radar system includes a processor for generating pulses and for processing return pulses received by the antenna. The processor generates...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
7312743 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
6977608 Atmospheric data aggregation and forecasting system  
An airborne network system (ANS) on a member aircraft receives incoming geo-referenced atmospheric data regarding atmospheric conditions from other member aircraft and can re-transmit the data to...
6882302 Enhanced adaptive weather thresholds for identification of hazards system and method  
A weather radar display system is disclosed. The weather radar display system comprises a weather radar antenna, processing electronics, coupled to the weather radar antenna, enhancing weather...
6879280 Vertical weather profile display 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...
6873287 Signal processing arrangement  
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement suitable for embedded signal processing, comprising a number of computational units ( 100 ), each computational unit comprising a number...
6839018 Vertical profile display with arbitrary plane  
A system for allowing pilots to quickly determine weather hazard-free flight paths and weather hazards that exist along the aircraft flight plan. The system includes a memory, a processor, and a...
6828923 Airborne microwave/infrared wind shear and clear air turbulence detector  
A system ( 24 ) for detecting an air disturbance in front of an aircraft ( 10 ) has a controller ( 26 ) that is coupled to an image detector ( 40 ). Image detector ( 40 ) generates an image signal...
6828922 Synthetic airborne hazard display  
A system and method for downlinking weather data, generated by existing weather and data sensors, to a ground station. The ground station utilizes data from multiple aircraft to form refined...
6741203 Adaptive radar thresholds system and method  
A system and method for adapting weather radar gain is disclosed. The system and method includes estimating a freezing altitude. The system and method also includes determining, based on the...
6515613 Rosar method for landing helicopters under adverse weather conditions and for recognizing and detecting concealed targets  
In a method for operating a rotating synthetic aperture radar system that works with pulse frequency or in FM-CW operation in order to detect, penetrate and evaluate objects that are located...
6512476 Adaptive radar scanning system  
An adaptive radar scanning system for an aircraft includes a radar antenna that is angularly movable to scan across a full scan range. A control system operates the radar antenna to scan in an...
6489915 Microwave icing avoidance system  
A passive microwave icing avoidance system (MIAS) senses atmospheric conditions that lead to aircraft icing when the aircraft is flying at an altitude above the earth's surface. The MIAS includes a...
6427122 Positioning and data integrating method and system thereof  
An improved positioning and data integrating process and system can substantially solve the problems encountered in system integration for personal hand-held applications, air, land, and water...
6388607 Multi-sweep method and system for mapping terrain with a weather radar system  
A system and method for detecting, processing, and displaying ground mapping radar information which uses multiple scans, at differing automated antenna tilt angles, to generate a single displayed...
6377207 Passive polarimetric microwave radiometer for detecting aircraft icing conditions  
The passive polarimetric microwave radiometer is a simple and low cost radiometric icing detection system that operates over a suitable set of frequency bands in the millimeter wave region of the...
6236351 Method and apparatus for implementing automatic tilt control of a radar antenna on an aircraft  
A method and apparatus for automatically controlling the tilt of a radar antenna to avoid ground clutter returns while scanning the weather formations of most interest. In one embodiment a terrain...
6204800 Method for monitoring the earth surface  
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the earth's surface with a moving aircraft using a radar sensor with a synthetic aperture. In order to produce high resolution radar images, the...
6188330 Windshear detection system  
A method and apparatus for detecting in situ windshear on-board an aircraft that utilizes parameters provided by standard on-board Air Data, Flight Management, and Stall Detection Systems. No...
6154169 Scan management and automatic tilt control for airborne radars  
A method for automatically managing the scan and tilt of an airborne radar.
6137433 Scatterometer with adaptable spatial resolution  
A global positioning system (GPS) ocean scatterometer with an adaptable spatial resolution for sensing and processing GPS signals reflected from an ocean surface for wind measurements in a wide...
5945926 Radar based terrain and obstacle alerting function  
A radar based terrain and obstacle detection device for aircraft detects obstacles and terrain ahead of the aircraft. An alert is sounded if the obstacle or terrain is above a clearance plane...
5936552 Integrated horizontal and profile terrain display format for situational awareness  
A visual display format for a terrain situational awareness system comprising a horizontal terrain elevation view and a profile terrain elevation view of potential terrain hazards integrated onto a...
5920276 Automatic horizontal and vertical scanning radar with terrain display  
A weather radar and terrain map display system for aircraft with the terrain elevation and weather information displayed in an easy to read and comprehend presentation. The system includes an...
5907568 Integrated precision approach radar display  
An improved precision approach radar (PAR) system using an integrated digital display for displaying the relative position of one or more targets, e.g., aircraft, to a preferred glide path and...
5905459 Methods and apparatus for stabilizing radar false alarm rate  
A radar system and method for operation of the same in a manner in which the false alarm rate is stabilized is provided. The system includes an automatic gain control (AGC) processing function...
5831570 Radar resolution using monopulse beam sharpening  
A method and apparatus for improving resolution of targets in a monopulse radar beam.
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