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7579978 Radar based runway confirmation database acquisition system  
A method of identifying a runway is disclosed. A first scan of an area of ground known to include a runway is performed. The first scan is accomplished using a weather radar system at a...
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...
7554483 Method and device for determining a decision height during an autonomous approach of an aircraft  
The subject of the invention is a method of aiding the piloting of an aircraft ( 3 ), which is intended to aid the piloting of the aircraft during an autonomous approach to a landing runway (P) for...
7522977 Method and a device for assisting the piloting of an aircraft during an approach phase  
A method for landing an aircraft includes determining the aircraft's deviation from its approach path so as to define a first point of the aircraft's heading. A first straight line passing through...
7474962 Methods and systems of relative navigation for shipboard landings  
A method for guiding the approach and landing of an aircraft is provided. The method involves receiving navigation information from the aircraft, receiving navigation information from an aircraft...
7471997 Landing-control device and landing-control method for aircraft  
A landing-control device is provided having a new structure for carrying out landing control of an aircraft. A detecting unit 10 detects at least a relative altitude from a landing surface to an...
7298316 Apparatus and method for instantly automatic detecting clutter blocks and interference source and for dynamically establishing clutter map  
An apparatus for detecting clutter blocks and an interference source for dynamically establishing a clutter map includes a clutter block detecting module accumulates a plurality of range cell data...
7295901 System and method for indicating a position of an aircraft to a user  
An avionics system includes a display device that is viewable by a user of an aircraft and a processor in operable communication with the display device. The processor is configured to display a...
7286077 Method and device for aiding the landing of an aircraft on a runway  
A system for aiding the landing of an aircraft on a runway uses an angular vertical position of the aircraft and includes at least one landing aid radio. In a stand-alone manner, the position of...
7248949 System and method for stochastic aircraft flight-path modeling  
Stochastic models of aircraft flight paths and a method for deriving such models from recorded air traffic data. Each stochastic model involves identifying the flight plan for one or more aircraft;...
7212920 Speed dependent variable range display system  
The speed dependent variable display system for a computer-implemented moving-map vehicle display system includes a data conversion module for converting a vehicle speed input signal to a distance...
7136012 Approach radar with array antenna having rows and columns skewed relative to the horizontal  
A monopulse precision landing or other land-based radar system uses an array antenna and a beamformer to produce sum, azimuth difference and elevation difference beams relative to the array. The...
7109914 Switching method and device on an aircraft radiofrequency landing system  
A method and device for carrying out switchover on a radio frequency landing system of an aircraft between a first input of a radio frequency receiver, which input is connected to a first antenna...
7089092 Airborne system and method for improving the integrity of electronic landing aids  
A method of increasing positional awareness of a pilot of an aircraft during a landing approach of the aircraft. First data from a navigational aid is received. The first data is analyzed to...
7088263 Runway approach lighting system and method  
A method and system for visually guiding an aircraft in its landing approach to a runway having an approach area equipped with approach lights operable in off, low, medium, and high intensity...
7038613 Method and device for determining at least one cue of vertical position of an aircraft  
A method and device for determining a vertical position cue of an aircraft while landing in the presence of a lateral alignment beam, which is emitted from the ground and provides an indication of...
6952632 Method of guiding an aircraft in the final approach phase and a corresponding system  
A method of guiding an aircraft in the final approach phase including imaging the ground using an imaging system onboard the aircraft to obtain an image, analyzing the image to detect an airport...
6934603 Multiblock robot system  
The advantage of flexible multi-axis robot systems and robot cell-unit systems being further extended by providing electric and electronic E-POOL networks, consisting of multiblock individual...
6850185 Runway obstacle detection system and method  
An airborne radar system is disclosed. The airborne radar system comprises a radar antenna, radar circuitry coupled to the radar antenna, and a runway database comprising runway location...
6847296 Method and device for locating moving objects  
In order to provide a method for locating moving objects that will allow high precision in position determination and thus largely eliminate sorting errors, and also to provide a device suitable...
6845304 Method of and system for deriving inertial-aided deviations for autoland systems during GPS signal interruptions  
Deriving inertial-aided deviations for autoland systems during GPS signal interruptions involving an inertial reference system and a GPS landing system can include converting position coordinates...
6711479 Avionics system for determining terminal flightpath  
A method, avionics apparatus and computer program for determining a terminal flight path, including access to aircraft position information provided by a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver....
6600442 Precision approach radar system having computer generated pilot instructions  
A computer generated pilot instruction system for providing spatial information to a pilot corresponding to the difference between the actual landing fight path and optimal landing flight path.
6591171 Autonomous landing guidance system  
An aircraft guidance system uses radar imaging to verify airport and runway location and provide navigation updates. The system is applicable to flight operations in low visibility conditions.
6496760 Flight information display with plane of flight view  
In an aircraft flight information display system, a viewing surface of the display presents an observer with a view of the flight space forward of the aircraft. The viewing surface includes a...
6492934 Method of deriving ground speed for descending aircraft  
The present invention is a method of deriving a ground speed of an aircraft on a descent along a flight path. A vertical speed signal is produced as a function of an altitude signal and a vertical...
6469655 Surveillance system for terrestrial navigational and airport landing systems  
The invention deals with a surveillance system for terrestrial navigational and landing systems, in which the navigational signals being transmitted for aeroplanes or other airborne objects by the...
6469654 Transponder landing system  
A ground-based, precision aircraft landing system provides CAT I precision approach and landing guidance. The aircraft elevation position is determined by measuring differential carrier phase and...
6359583 Ground based millimeter wave imaging system  
System and methods for a ground based millimeter wave imaging system that provides real-time millimeter wave images of an airport to one or more aircraft from one or more ground stations ( 18 )....
6356228 Automatic airport information transmitting apparatus  
There is provided an automatic airport information transmitting apparatus comprising: airport-inside-target detecting means for detecting a target inside an airport; target judging means for...
6347264 High accuracy, high integrity scene mapped navigation  
An aircraft including an approach and landing system, including a navigation unit for providing navigation information, a weather radar unit for providing radar information, a processor which...
6342853 System for using differential GPS receivers with autopilot systems for category III precision approaches  
A precision approach capable dual differential global positioning system (DGPS) receiver avionics system. The system of the present invention includes a first and a second DGPS receiver. The first...
6259975 Flight control system for an aircraft particularly for a helicopter  
A flight control system for an aircraft, particularly for a helicopter receives a number of items of information, especially the position of flight control members of said aircraft, and sends,...
6219594 Landing area obstacle detection radar system  
An aircraft including an approach and landing system, including a navigation unit for providing navigation information, a weather radar unit for providing radar information, a processor which...
6211809 Surface-based passive millimeter-wave landing aid  
A passive millimeter-wave imaging system (10) that includes a millimeter-wave camera (12) positioned at the end of an aircraft landing strip (14) to provide an image (20) of the aircraft (16)...
6208288 Millimeter wave all azimuth field of view surveillance and imaging system  
A passive millimeter-wave imaging system (10) is disclosed that provides a full 360° instantaneous azimuthal field-of-view (54) image of a scene. The imaging system (10) makes use of a spherical...
6181990 Aircraft flight data acquisition and transmission system  
An aircraft data transmission system used with an aircraft having a data acquisition unit. The system includes a communications unit located in the aircraft and in communication with the data...
6181271 Target locating system and approach guidance system  
The invention comprises a mulli-wave radar system for obtaining first target position information of a flying object by capturing and tracking the flying object from a maximum detection distance, a...
6178363 Inertially augmented GPS landing system  
An airplane precision approach guidance system and method. The airplane precision approach guidance system includes: (i) GPS landing system (GLS) components (12) for receiving and processing...
6161097 Automated traffic management system and method  
A data management system and method that enables acquisition, integration and management of real-time data generated at different rates, by multiple, heterogeneous incompatible data sources. The...
6157876 Method and apparatus for navigating an aircraft from an image of the runway  
An image sensor attached to an aircraft generates an image. The image includes a runway and other objects. The edges within the image are detected and Nav Data is used to predict the coordinates...
6085147 System for determination of optimal travel path in a multidimensional space  
The present automated vehicle travel path determination system which computes a travel path for a vehicle from an origination point to a destination point based on the operating characteristics of...
6012001 Method and apparatus for determining aircraft-to-ground distances and descent rates during landing  
A method and apparatus are described for the determination of the height above a landing surface and the rate of descent to the landing surface for a fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft when the...
5955971 Window-passage detection system of an airplane  
A window-passage detection system has a ground system comprising: a first course generator (3) for generating a horizontal DDM (Differential Depth of Modulation) pattern for defining a horizontal...
5920278 Method and apparatus for identifying, locating, tracking, or communicating with remote objects  
A broadband transmitter element, located at a remote object, transmits a broadband signal at a prescribed transmission time. A broadband receiver element, located at a base platform spaced from the...
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...
5838276 Microwave energy implemented aircraft landing system  
A microwave radio frequency landing system includes an aircraft borne transmitter/receiver (transceiver) and a ground unit. The ground unit comprises a dielectric material lens and a transponder...
5825021 Apparatus for detecting that a flying object has passed a monitoring space  
Plural light emitting device groups are arranged in the direction perpendicular to the center line of a runway and each of them comprises plural light emitting devices different in light emitting...
5786773 Local-area augmentation system for satellite navigation precision-approach system  
An aircraft local-area augmentation system that employs a differential global positioning system (GPS) to assist aircraft (102) landing is disclosed. One or more GPS ground stations (120), each...
5748136 Electronic landmark enhancement to GPS based navigation systems  
A system and apparatus for enhancing the satellite based navigation systems which includes providing an aircraft with an interrogating radar for interrogating beacons disposed at a predetermined...
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