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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING ENERGY USE Analyzing energy use comprises determining a location identifier associated with a site. Weather data associated with the site is determined according to the location identifier. Energy usage information associated with the site is determined. An energy metric for the s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130640 | DIFFUSION STATE PREDICTION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Diffusion calculation is performed with a shorter processing time and superior precision. Provided are a calculation-grid determining unit (2) that determines a size of a calculation grid dividing a space in a region of interest; a boundary-setting calculation un... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084006 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING WEATHER FLUCTUATION PREDICTION INFORMATION AND METHOD OF PROVIDING WEATHER FLUCTUATION PREDICTION INFORMATION A system for providing weather fluctuation prediction information includes at least one atmospheric pressure measurement device arranged in a specific local area, and a data processing device processing atmospheric pressure data measured by the atmospheric pressure meas... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084005 | WEATHER VARIATION FORECAST INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND WEATHER VARIATION FORECAST INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD A weather variation forecast information providing system includes at least three atmospheric pressure measuring devices arranged at different positions in a specific region and a data processing device processing the measured atmospheric pressure data. The data process... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083931 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JUDGING AN UNNECESSARY WINDWARD CONDITION AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING WIND The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for judging an unnecessary windward condition and a method and system for tracking wind, wherein the method comprises: taking a first wind sample by using a wind sampling-detecting unit, detecting and obtaining a w... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120029824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS OF DISTINCT WIND FLOW Systems and methods for detecting areas of distinct wind flow in a region of a wind farm are disclosed. Areas of distinct flow can be identified by a computing tool based at least in part on wind velocity field data. For instance, using wind velocity field data, a finit... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029823 | SENSING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING WEATHER EVENT ATTRIBUTES A sensing device for use in determining at least one attribute of a weather event comprising a plurality of elements. The sensing device can comprise a pressure sensitive surface. The pressure sensitive surface can comprise a pressure sensor. In response to receiving pr... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110320050 | Systems And Methods For Remote Irrigation Control Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to systems and methods for remote irrigation control. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a remote irrigation control system having a rain sensor enabled to detect the amount of rain recei... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110297789 | Aircraft De-Icing System And Method An aircraft de-icing system and method for removing the ice from the surface of an aircraft. The aircraft de-icing system reduces power requirements by allocating power from a single power source between the parting strip elements and the shed zone elements. The aircraf... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295506 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Determining Point-To-Point Correlation Of Sky Clearness For Photovoltaic Power Generation Fleet Output Estimation A computer-implemented system and method for determining point-to-point correlation of sky clearness for photovoltaic power generation fleet output estimation is provided. A physical distance between two points is obtained, each point being suitable for operation of a p... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295505 | INTERFERENCE-COMPENSATED SENSOR The interference-compensated sensor (10) for detecting an object located in a detection area in a contactless manner, particularly a rain sensor, is provided with a first and a second measuring channel (12,14) each having a control device and an output ( 12/01/2011 | |
| 20110295504 | MOISTURE DETECTION WIRE, A MOISTURE DETECTION SYSTEM, AND A METHOD OF DETECTING MOISTURE A water detector wire 1.002 for use in a power cable or building, the cable having a wire 1.004 with a water soluble insulating jacket 1.006 made of two or more components, wherein a first component has a first solubility in water, and the second co... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288775 | Rain Sensor with Variable Shut Off An intelligent rain sensor incorporates at least one hygroscopic member and a sensor that generates signals representative of its amount of expansion due to absorption of moisture. A microcontroller executes a pre-programmed algorithm that determines at least the rate o... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288776 | Cloud water characterization system A system and method for providing a statistical measure of the size of liquid water droplets in a cloud, as well as a system and method for the detection and/or measurement of the presence of a cloud, liquid water content in the cloud and ice water content in the cloud,... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288757 | INFORMATION FILTERING AND PROCESSING IN A ROADWAY TRAVEL DATA EXCHANGE NETWORK A traffic monitoring system includes one or more processors operable to collect location data from a third-party network having a mobile user, weight at least one element of the location data based on reliability, and generate traffic speed data at a roadway location ba... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282514 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING SOLAR POWER A solar power forecasting system can provide forecasts of solar power output by photovoltaic plants over multiple time frames. A first time frame may be several hours from the time of the forecast, which can allow utility personnel sufficient time to make decisions to c... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276269 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORECASTING SOLAR POWER A solar power forecasting system can provide forecasts of solar power output by photovoltaic plants over multiple time frames. A first time frame may be several hours from the time of the forecast, which can allow utility personnel sufficient time to make decisions to c... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110251793 | ESTIMATION OF WIND MAGNITUDE AND DIRECTION The present invention relates to a method of providing a nearly continuously updated, on-line estimate of wind magnitude and direction when in turning flight and more particularly, relates to a method that requires only a GPS receiver and y- and z-body axis mounted gyro... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110224905 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACCURATE SERVICE LIFE PREDICTION Methods and apparatus for accurate service life prediction by exposing a test specimen to operating parameters of a multi-variable micro-environment cycle in an accelerated weathering test apparatus including an irradiance source, a temperature adjustment source and a m... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110218734 | Methods and apparatus for passive tropospheric measurments utilizing a single band of frequencies adjacent to a selected millimeter wave water vapor line Apparatus and methods are disclosed for passive millimeter wave measurements to provide tropospheric profiles of temperature, water vapor, cloud liquid water, pressure, and refractivity utilizing a single band microwave receiver operating in the vicinity of the water va... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110191026 | BROADCAST SIGNAL RECEIVER HAVING MONITORING FUNCTION OF SOLAR CELL MODULE A broadcast signal receiver includes a first input unit receiving information of solar cell module producing power, a storage unit storing the information of the solar cell module, a second input unit receiving a broadcast signal, and an output unit outputting the broad... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182712 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A WIND POWER PLANT It is presented a method for controlling the instantaneous power output from a wind power plant. Wind speed and wind directions are determined, wherein an upper limit power output for the specific wind speed and wind direction is determined from a previously measured po... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110176565 | MULTI-BEAM LASER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD A multi-beam laser beam control system includes a laser transmitter configured to emit light in a plurality of beamlets. A sensor is configured to receive light from the beamlets. A processor is communicably coupled to the sensor and configured to compute a relative pha... | 07/21/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110166787 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LOCATING WIND TURBINES Methods and systems for providing wind energy density for a location, for example, for locating a wind turbine at the location are provided. The method includes the steps of a) providing a location for consideration; b) identifying at least one meteorological station, f... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110137827 | Irrigation water management system The efficiency of an irrigation system on a property is determined as a difference between the actual water usage at a property and the irrigation water need of the plant on the property. Data for the property are received including at least the location and irrigation ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110137564 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WIND CONDITIONS USING MULTIPLE WIND RESOURCE GRIDS A method for determining wind conditions within a geographic area based on a plurality of input wind resource grids. The input wind resource grids include input points associated with a geographic position and a wind condition. An output wind resource grid having a plur... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110102192 | Method, Apparatus And Computer Program Product For Displaying Forecast Weather Products With Actual And Predicted Ownship A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for displaying forecast weather products in relation to a planned flight path of an air vehicle. The method, apparatus and computer program product may display a representation of future weather conditions al... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110077865 | FALL DETECTION SYSTEM There is provided a fall detection system, comprising a passive vibration sensor; one or more other sensors for detecting respective characteristics of a fall; and a processor for analyzing measurements from the one or more other sensors to determine if a fall has occur... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110060475 | Cloud Tracking A cloud tracking system for photovoltaic power plant is disclosed. The cloud tracking system for photovoltaic power plant can include plurality of cloud shadow sensors positioned on the perimeter of the photovoltaic power plant.... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110054794 | OPTICAL MOISTURE SENSOR A moisture sensor is provided that simultaneously achieves ruggedness, sensitivity, wide dynamic range, versatility of application, and low cost. The outer, top service of the sensor is a lens having a predetermined geometric shape which preferably makes the rain sensor... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110046809 | ADAPTIVE RELAYING CONTROLLED BY AUTONOMOUS EVENT DETECTION An adaptive relaying control system and method is disclosed for adapting coordination of protective measures provided to an electric-energy distribution system as a function of at least an ambient weather condition. A weather sensor senses the ambient weather condition ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110029243 | System and Method for Determining Road Conditions A road data apparatus is disclosed that predicts road conditions comprising a land surface data generator which derives a land surface data output from a plurality of current and forecast weather and location data, said current and forecast weather and location data com... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022294 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING CUSTOMIZED ICONS A method (and system for practicing the method) for processing and reporting a characteristic of a resource for a domain (e.g., weather forecast for a flight route). A request is sent to a server for customized data for the resource, preferably containing at least a uni... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110009986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLING ODOR EMISSION The present invention relates to a system and method for dynamically controlling odor emission. The system comprises an odor measurement tool, a weather condition measurement tool, a processing module and a controller. The odor measurement tool is adapted to measure an ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100318297 | IRRADIANCE MAPPING LEVERAGING A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS A computer processor implemented method of developing irradiance mapping using a distributed network of solar photovoltaic systems, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a predetermined geographic area having at least five solar photovoltaic systems to provide a... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312594 | Wind Turbine Siting and Maintenance Prediction A computer-implemented method for determining a site for a wind turbine within a confined geographical target region on the basis of an estimate of a maintenance parameter comprises determining a wind climate at the target region, the wind climate including e.g. average... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312404 | Automatically Adjusting Irrigation Controller Methods and devices are provided to automatically determine plant water requirements and adjust irrigation in order to make efficient use of water. In one implementation, an irrigation control unit comprises a memory storing historical values of a plurality of variables... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100305860 | Filtered Model Output Statistics (FMOS) A computer-implemented method to provide stabilized and spatially smooth regression coefficients for weather forecast error correction from small training data sets. In accordance with the present invention, an MOS estimate of the regression coefficient calculated from ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100286973 | Real-Time Process For Targeting Trait Phenotyping of Plant Breeding Experiments A method for targeting trait phenotyping of a plant breeding experiment includes collecting soil data for at least one location, applying the soil data to a crop model, performing environmental monitoring at the at least one location to generate environmental data, upda... | 11/11/2010 |
