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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120032840 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PRECIPITATION USING A RADAR SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MOTOR VEHICLES A method for detecting precipitation using a radar sensor system for motor vehicles designed for locating objects in the surroundings of the vehicle, in which method a locating signal that is a measure of the received power density as a function of the distance is integ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120013503 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PRECIPITATON USING A RADAR LOCATING DEVICE FOR MOTOR VEHICLES A method for detecting precipitation using a radar locating device for motor vehicles, that is designed to locate objects in the surroundings of the vehicle, in which method a locating signal (42), which is an index for the received power density as a function of... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110304501 | RADAR RETURN SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD According to one embodiment, a radar return signal processing apparatus includes a detector, an estimation unit and an extraction unit. The detector detects an average Doppler frequency, a spectrum width, and a received power of each of echoes, from a radar return signa... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298656 | RADAR SENSOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING PRECIPITATION USING A RADAR SENOR In the method for detecting precipitation using a radar sensor, the radar sensor emits a transmission signal, whose frequency is varied periodically in successive modulation ramps. Signals received by the radar sensor are analyzed to determine precipitation on the basis... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291879 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND DETERMINING REMOTE ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALIES A system for detecting and determining remote atmospheric anomalies is furnished with a movable-beam anemometry probe for measuring the orthogonal projection onto the sighting axis, named the radial component, of a relative velocity remotely, with respect to a remote ai... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285582 | CYLINDRICAL POLARIMETRIC PHASED ARRAY RADAR A radar data acquisition system including a polarimetric phased array antenna and a radar control and processing system. The polarimetric phased array antenna includes a support system, an array of panels and a switching network. One or more of the panels include a dual... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110267224 | STORM ADVECTION NOWCASTING Embodiments of the invention can predict the ground location and intensity of storm cells for a future time using radar reflectivity data. In some embodiments, a Sinc approximation of the general flow equation can be solved to predict the ground location and intensity o... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110234453 | WEATHER RADAR APPARATUS AND WEATHER OBSERVATION METHOD According to one embodiment, a weather radar apparatus includes an antenna unit, a drive unit, an adjustment unit, and a control unit. The antenna unit is configured to transmit radio waves from a plurality of antenna elements, perform beam scan in a direction of elevat... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110172920 | PROCESS FOR GENERATING SPATIALLY CONTINUOUS WIND PROFILES FROM WIND PROFILER MEASUREMENTS A neural network process for improving wind retrievals from wind profiler measurements is described. In this invention, a neural network is trained to retrieve (missing or incomplete) upper level winds from ground based wind profiler measurements. Radiosonde measurement... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110148692 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF HAZARD TO AVIATION DUE TO CONVECTIVE WEATHER Systems and methods for improving output of weather information. A weather radar system receives weather reflectivity values. A processing device stores the received weather reflectivity values into a three-dimensional buffer, calculates a sum of the reflectivity value ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140955 | SYSTEM FOR MEASURING TURBULENCE REMOTELY A method of predicting turbulence that may involve receiving electromagnetic energy that has traveled along a path subject to the turbulence, with the turbulence altering the electromagnetic energy. A determination may be made as to the alteration caused by the turbulen... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110102250 | SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM Sensitivity is a critical aspect of weather radar systems. Such systems not only detect atmospheric patterns but often need to precisely measure weak precipitation echoes. Embodiments of the invention use pulse compression techniques to increase the sensitivity of weath... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102249 | RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM (RES) FOR NETWORKED RADARS Embodiments provide methods, systems, and/or devices that can provide measurements of the inherent reflectivity distribution from different look angles using N radar nodes. Doppler weather radars generally operate with very good spatial resolution in range and poor cros... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110090111 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE NOWCAST OF LIGHTNING THREAT USING POLARIMETRIC RADAR A system and method for predicting the probability of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, ‘frequent’, more than 2 strikes per minute on average, cloud to ground lightning strikes, and/or ‘numerous’, more than 4 strikes per minute on average, through the use of po... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110063164 | WEATHER RADAR APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF According to one embodiment, a weather radar apparatus includes a transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit a radar wave to an observation target and receive a reflected wave, a distribution unit configured to distribute a received signal of the reflected wave ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110057832 | Method for determining the angular aperture corresponding to the extent in a plane of an object seen by a radar antenna The present invention relates to a method for determining the angular aperture corresponding to the extent in a plane of an object seen by a radar antenna, the object being situated at a given distance from the radar antenna. Echoes are measured in directions | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110050486 | DOPPLER RADAR APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CALCULATING DOPPLER VELOCITY According to one embodiment, a Doppler radar apparatus includes a quadrature detection unit configured to quadrature-detect a received signal of a reflected pulse from an observation target, and generate time-series data including an in-phase component and a quadrature ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110018757 | WEATHER RADAR APPARATUS AND RAINFALL RATE CALCULATION METHOD According to one embodiment, a weather radar apparatus includes a transmitting/receiving unit configured to simultaneously transmit radar waves of a horizontally polarized wave and a vertically polarized wave and receive reflected waves, a signal processing unit configu... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100328144 | WEATHER RADAR AND WEATHER OBSERVATION METHOD A weather radar includes an antenna unit configured to transmit a radio wave from a plurality of antenna elements, and receive a reflected wave from a weather target by carrying out beam scanning in an elevation angle direction by phase control, a drive unit configured ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100309041 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING PRECIPITATION BY RADAR A method for detecting precipitation in a region monitored by radar beams includes ascertaining a first average power of a first backscattered radar signal, ascertaining a second average power of a second backscattered radar signal, and detecting an existence of a homog... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100265125 | System and Method for Presenting Wind Speed Information in a Planar Representation A system and method for presenting wind speed information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations and the like. Wind speed information is presented as a planar representation of three-dimensional win... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100254593 | System for Draping Meteorological Data on a Three Dimensional Terrain Image A system for draping meteorological data on a three dimensional terrain image has been developed. The system includes a central processing server that receives meteorological data in real time and drapes the meteorological data over a three dimensional terrain image. Th... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100253574 | WEATHER RADAR AND WEATHER OBSERVATION METHOD A weather radar includes an antenna unit of an active phased array system in which a plurality of antenna elements configured to transmit a radar pulse and receive a reflected pulse are arranged in a vertical direction, a transmission beam formation unit configured to d... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100245166 | TURBULENCE PREDICTION OVER EXTENDED RANGES Methods and systems for predicting turbulence. An exemplary system decomposes near-range reflectivity data into multiple adaptive, three-dimensional Gaussian component functions and decomposes turbulence data into multiple adaptive, three-dimensional Gaussian component ... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100207809 | RADAR DEVICE AND RAIN/SNOW AREA DETECTING DEVICE A radar device is disclosed. The radar device includes a radar antenna, from which detection signals are transmitted while the radar antenna being rotated, the radar device generating a radar image from reflection waves of the transmitted detection signals, a reception ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100164786 | Method of Characterizing the Convection Intensity of a Cloud, by a Meteorological Radar The present invention relates to a method of characterizing the convection intensity of a cloud by a meteorological radar. The reflectivity of said cloud to an electromagnetic wave being distributed in space, the distribution of the reflect... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100117892 | METHOD FOR RADAR MONITORING OF WAKE TURBULENCE The present invention relates to a method for detecting and grading the state and the evolution of wake turbulence caused by an aircraft, on the basis of the radar signals reflected by this turbulence, these signals being analyzed through analysis cells of given dimensi... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100052976 | WEATHER RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING A method and system are described whereby a magnetron-based radar transmission signal is accurately measured, allowing for measurement of absolute phase change returns from fixed clutter targets caused by changes in the refractive index of the transmission medium.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100033499 | System and method for eliminating confusion between weather data and terrain data in aircraft displays An improved system and method are disclosed for eliminating pilot confusion in visualizing multiple categories of data, such as, for example, weather data and terrain data, simultaneously on an integrated, multi-color display. For example, an aircraft display system is ... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100026565 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF AN ATMOSPHERIC VORTEX KINEMATIC STRUCTURE A method for generating a representation of a kinematic structure of an atmospheric vortex is provided. The method comprises receiving a plurality of signals from a Doppler radar. The signals are reflected at a plurality of pulse volumes. The method also comprises measu... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090315762 | Adaptive specific differential phase in dual-polarization radar Systems and methods are provided for adaptively estimating the specific differential phase (Kdp) from dual-polarization radar data in the complex domain. Some embodiments adapt for wrapped differential propagation phases by estimating the specific differentia... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090295627 | Dual-polarization radar processing system using time domain method Embodiments of the present invention provide for improved estimation of environmental parameters in a dual-polarization radar system. In some embodiments, environmental parameters can be estimated using a linear combination of data received in two orthogonal polarizatio... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090267826 | SYSTEM FOR MEASURING TURBULENCE REMOTELY A system for detecting turbulence along a path that is subject to turbulence. The system may make use of at least one transmitter to transmit electromagnetic (EM) energy along the path and at least one receiver to receive the EM energy. At least one of the transmitter a... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090243917 | METHOD OF PROCESSING A RADAR IMAGE, OBTAINED IN PARTICULAR FROM AN AIRBORNE RADAR, WITH EVALUATION OF THE ALTITUDE OF THE 0ºC ISOTHERM The invention targets a method of processing a radar image obtained from a radar. It comprises an automatic evaluation of the altitude of the isotherm at zero degrees Celsius, called zero isotherm, using a processing of the reflectivity information (rf(px)) conveyed by ... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090243918 | System and Method for Presenting Wind Speed Information A system and method for presenting wind speed information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations and the like. Wind speed information is presented as two or three-dimensional wind speed contour line... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090224965 | Dynamic and adaptive radar tracking of storms (DARTS) Methods and systems for estimating atmospheric conditions are disclosed according to embodiments of the invention. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving reflective atmospheric data and solving a flow equation for motion coefficients using the reflective atmo... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090174596 | POLARIZATION-MODULATED TRANSMITTER FOR A WEATHER RADAR Polarization modulated transmitter, in particular for a weather radar, with at least two signal paths (3, 4) to which a radio frequency signal can be fed, and which are connected to a coupler (8), and with a phase modulation of the signal to be emitted via... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090160700 | Monitoring and Mapping of Atmospheric Phenomena A computerized system for mapping an atmospheric phenomenon in a geographic region. Multiple free-space electromagnetic communications links are previously distributed in the geographic region. The system includes an interface to monitoring mechanisms attached respectiv... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20080291082 | Method for detecting atmospheric turbulence by an embedded electromagnetic sensor, notably on board an aircraft An aim of the invention is to allow the detection of turbulence in the absence of tracers. A radar is embedded aboard an aircraft (21) and implements the following steps: searching for the upper part of a convective system (1) situated outside the given zo... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080211714 | 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 rates F1, F2, F3; determining respective sp... | 09/04/2008 |
