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8149154 System, method, and software for performing dual hysteresis target association  
In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving first track information comprising data for a particular aircraft track. The method further includes receiving a first radar plot comprising...
8138964 Tracking air and ground vehicles  
In one aspect, an air and ground vehicle tracking system includes a base station configured to transmit locations of air vehicles to a radio and a GPS receiver disposed in a ground vehicle and...
8138967 Multilateration system and method  
A multilateration system and method includes a plurality of receiver stations for receiving signals from an aircraft, and a controller that derives the position of the aircraft by applying a...
8130135 Bi-static radar processing for ADS-B sensors  
A system and technique to derive a position of a non-ADSB equipped aircraft using ADS-B information provided from an ADSB equipped aircraft and bi-static radar processing techniques.
8102300 Secondary surveillance radar  
A transmitter 122 transmits interrogations to aircraft airborne in a coverage, a receiver 123 receives signals transmitted from aircraft airborne in the coverage, reply analyzers 132b and 133b...
8102301 Self-configuring ADS-B system  
Techniques are described that allow information to be acquired by an ADS-B system of an aircraft without the installation of ADS-B dedicated flight crew controls or wired data interfaces in the...
8054215 Precision registration for radar  
A precision radar registration (PR2) system and method that employs highly accurate geo-referenced positional data as a basis for correcting registration bias present in radar data. In one...
8004452 Methods and apparatus for coordinating ADS-B with mode S SSR and/or having single link communication  
Methods and apparatus for an ADS-B system having a single link for communication and/or ADS-B/Mode-S coordination. With this arrangement, the system communication is efficiently used.
7936300 Method for reducing multipath propagation effects during the processing of replies in mode ā€œSā€  
The processing method according to the invention is a method of processing replies from targets interrogated by a surveillance radar according to a mode S interrogation of all the targets present...
7929802 Method and apparatus for registration and vector extraction of SAR images based on an anisotropic diffusion filtering algorithm  
A computer system for registering synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images includes a database for storing SAR images to be registered, and a processor for registering SAR images from the database....
7898467 Method and device for simulating radio navigation instruments  
The device (405) for behavior simulation of a radio navigation system, without the latter being installed on an aircraft, comprising a means (410) for determining a position of the aircraft,...
7893863 Enhanced aircraft transponder reliability  
An aircraft system includes a transponder and a processor. The processor is configured to determine if the aircraft is positioned in a predetermined restricted flying zone. If the aircraft is...
7880667 Methods and apparatus for using interferometry to prevent spoofing of ADS-B targets  
Methods and apparatus for preventing spoofing of targets, such as aircraft, in an air traffic control system. In one embodiment, first and second antennas at respective ground stations can be used...
7876259 Automatic dependent surveillance system secure ADS-S  
An air traffic control automatic dependent, WAAS/GPS based, surveillance system (ADS), for operation in the TRACON airspace. The system provides encryption protection against unauthorized reading...
7855675 Method and device for detecting an environning aircraft  
A radar unit on board an aircraft scans a scan area of surrounding space relative to a runway to detect any nearby aircraft and a unit presents to a pilot an indication of such detection of the...
7847722 Secondary surveillance radar and method of analyzing replies for secondary surveillance radar  
Provided is a secondary surveillance radar with an improved capability of eliminating an unnecessary Mode A/C target report, which includes a transmission unit transmitting interrogations, a...
7786922 Systems and methods employing active TCAS to enhance situational awareness  
A method according to the present invention includes transmitting a Mode S interrogation and receiving a response from an aircraft that has received the Mode S interrogation. A range to the...
7786900 Method of aiding navigation for aircraft in an emergency situation  
Navigation of an aircraft is facilitated through the displaying on a map of an over flown region, and of the limits of zones within range of the aircraft in an emergency situation. The points of...
7746268 Mode S secondary surveillance radar  
A transmitter (13) operates in an immediate scan after an initial acquisition or detection of an altered aircraft ID by a changed flight status, to transmit to an aircraft a sequence of...
7719459 Secondary radar message decoding  
A method and apparatus for determining a value of each bit in a secondary radar response pulse train sampled at a bit rate greater than one sample per bit is provided. The received signal is...
7698025 Integrating communication and surveillance  
An aircraft control unit has modules for interfacing with various systems of an aircraft to integrate control of the systems. The modules include a communication module configured to be coupled to...
7688250 Method for pre-detecting responses in a secondary radar or application to the detection of mode S responses  
The invention relates to a method for pre-detecting responses in a secondary radar. It applies in particular to the detection of mode S responses. An aim of the invention is to process the signals...
7619557 Method and device for filtering a video signal received by a secondary radar, particularly in order to eliminate mode S replies  
The invention applies to secondary radars. It makes it possible to carry out filtering when seeking to detect SSR responses, these SSR responses being overlapped by a mode S response. According to...
7616149 Methods and apparatus for radar time sensor  
Methods and apparatus to detect and measure energy transmission or azimuth angle information from a radar system at one or more known or measured azimuth angles, determine, for each azimuth angle,...
7612705 Mode S radar  
Disclosed is a Mode S radar which specifies an aircraft by transmitting interrogations to an aircraft A equipped with a Mode S transponder, and by then receiving and decoding replies corresponding...
7598905 Systems and methods for monitoring transponder performance  
There are presented various approaches to monitor performance of RF systems and circuitry such as those used in aircraft transponders. Such monitoring may be designed to verify operational...
7570194 High precision surveillance system by means of multilateration of secondary surveillance radar (SSR) signals  
A system able to locate and identify aircraft and vehicles based on the reception and processing, with novel means and methods, of signals emitted by the transponder of the secondary surveillance...
7570195 High-capacity location and identification system for cooperating mobiles with frequency agile and time division transponder device on board  
Cooperating mobiles (ground vehicles, aircraft) are located and identified by Multilateration and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) techniques using the frequency band and the...
7567203 Classification system for radar and sonar applications  
A system and method for target classification for an aircraft surveillance radar is provided. In one implementation, the track classifier provides tracks with an updated probability value based on...
7495602 Single air traffic control (ATC) operator interface  
Systems and methods for communication using a plurality of data link standards through a common operator interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes components configured to...
7495600 Airfield surface target detection and tracking using distributed multilateration sensors and W-band radar sensors  
An airport surface target detection, classification and tracking system using a network of multilateration (SSR) sensors and W-band radar sensors is used to provide automatic location and tracking...
7429950 Method and apparatus to extend ADS performance metrics  
A method and system are provided for measuring and monitoring performance metrics of a non-ADS-B tracking system and generating performance metrics for the non-ADS-B tracking system in terms of...
7430415 Real-time programming of electronic radio system resource assets  
A method to efficiently implement a reconfigurable electronic radio system (400) including resource assets (402-408, 410-416, 418, 420-426, 428) and a processor (428). The processor (428) generates...
7420501 Method and system for correlating radar position data with target identification data, and determining target position using round trip delay data  
A method and system for using a single transceiver to correlate radar position data with target identification data. Two transceivers, operating in round trip delay mode, can be used to provide two...
7408497 Method and device for determining a reference value of a response, in particular of a mode S response received by a secondary radar  
The present invention applies to the surveillance of, in particular civil, air traffic, and more particularly, to cooperative aircraft ground systems which make it possible to pinpoint in radial...
7408498 Secondary surveillance radar and its interrogation transmission method  
An interrogation transmission method of a secondary surveillance radar compares prediction angle ranges for transmitting interrogations with a beam-width of an antenna, and transmits the...
7391359 Mode S transponder transmission signal decoder and Mode S transponder transmission signal decoding method  
There are provided a differential processing unit which performs differential processing for a Mode S transponder transmission signal, an auto correlation arithmetic operation unit which performs...
7352318 Method and system for real time pulse processing in ATCRBS/Mode-S transponders  
An apparatus for processing pulses in ATCRBS/Mode S interrogations includes an antenna for receiving a radio frequency interrogation signal. The radio frequency interrogation signal is...
7256728 Aircraft avoidance system for prohibiting an aircraft from entering an exclusion zone  
The present invention relates to an avoidance system and method for directing an aircraft away from an exclusion zone. The exclusion zone may be any three dimensional space for example about a...
7170441 Target localization using TDOA distributed antenna  
This invention is a system and method of locating a target using distributed antenna. The antenna consists of several receiving elements in known locations. At least one of the receiving elements...
7095360 Secondary surveillance radar system, ground equipment for use therein, and response signal checking method applied thereto  
A secondary surveillance radar system for use in surveillance of an airspace, which reliably achieves surveillance of the airspace even when an aircraft including a mode S transponder and an...
7015856 Device and method for SPR detection in a Mode-S transponder  
A Mode-S transponder is provided for detecting synchronization phase reversal (SPR) signals. The transponder includes a receiver for receiving a Mode-S signal that contains a P6 pulse having a...
7012552 Civil aviation passive coherent location system and method  
A civil aviation passive coherent location system and method is disclosed. A receiver subsystem receives reference transmissions from an uncontrolled transmitter. The receiver subsystem also...
7006032 Integrated traffic surveillance apparatus  
An apparatus and method for combining the functionality of multiple airborne traffic surveillance systems that operate in the L-band frequency range. The apparatus and method combine the...
6825795 Transponder lock  
A transponder lock provides allows an aircraft transponder to continue transmitting an alerting code for the duration of an emergency. The transponder lock thereby enables the aircraft transponder...
6819282 Super-resolution processor/receiver to discriminate superimposed secondary surveillance radar (SSR) replies and squitter  
A super resolution processor/receiver to discriminate superimposed secondary surveillance radar (Mode S, Mode A/C) replies and squitter that uses frequency-domain analysis to suppress interference...
6816105 Vehicle surveillance system  
An algorithm for improved tracking of Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System transponders is disclosed. The algorithm can be combined with a system that includes an interrogator which transmits an...
6809679 Surveillance system and method for aircraft approach and landing  
A system and method for measuring and predicting information on the position of approaching aircraft are disclosed. The system features a processor, an interrogating antenna, a receiving antenna,...
6744396 Surveillance and collision avoidance system with compound symbols  
A surveillance and collision avoidance system provides a presentation of situational awareness information for display that includes a compound symbol for each target spaced at a distance and...
6628225 Reduced split target reply processor for secondary surveillance radars and identification friend or foe systems  
A method of processing reply signals received in response to an interrogation by a secondary surveillance radar system. The method includes the steps of receiving a reply signal from each of a...
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