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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7728759 | System and method for using iridium satellite signals for meteorological measurements A method for obtaining weather related information for a portion of the Earth's atmosphere between a mobile platform traversing over a predetermined surface portion of the Earth, and at least one satellite from a satellite constellation. The method involves modifyin... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7369847 | Fixed cell communication system with reduced interference A communication system has a high altitude communication device that has an antenna for directing beams to a fixed cell pattern with a polarity of cells. A specific pattern of cells having the same communication resource is provided. Preferably, cells having the sam... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 antenna is adapted to, in a first mode, receive reflected radar signals f... | 01/02/2007 |
| 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 unit spatially averages each output to determine a mean altitude. Pit... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7039505 | Method for digital transmission and display of weather imagery A method for creating minimal data representing a source image is presented. The source image is divided into a grid of cells. A color is selected for each cell corner based on sampling an area defined by the cell corner. An indication of the selected color is store... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6983198 | Onboard satellite processing to mitigate data recorder limits A spacecraft (102) can include a communications receiver (210) for receiving a selected list of targets (114, 116) for which desired information is to be acquired by the spacecraft (102). In addition to location data concerning the target... | 01/03/2006 |
| 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 of processing elements (20) capable of working independe... | 03/29/2005 |
| 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 flight parameters of the aircraft are also required. Accordin... | 03/20/2001 |
| 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 range of altitudes and wind velocities. To increase wind sens... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137437 | Spaceborne scatterometer A scatterometer orbiting around the earth globe comprises a single fanbeam radar antenna which is rotated around a vertical axis, at a slow rotation rate. The antenna foot-print sweeps a circular disc. The slow conical sweep combined with the motion of th... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6014606 | Cockpit weather information system Weather information, periodically collected from throughout a global region, is periodically assimilated and compiled at a central source and sent via a high speed data link to a satellite communication service, such as COMSAT. That communication service ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5265024 | Pilots automated weather support system A system and process for providing systematic, updated, weather information from the ground to the pilot of an aircraft are disclosed. A ground station receives and assimilates weather data for satellite broadcast as digital weather data that is received ... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5264852 | Satellite equipment for measuring the backscatter coefficient of the sea Satellite radar apparatus measures the backscatter coefficient of the sea to determine the speeds and directions of winds at sea. The apparatus implements three aiming directions per swath with the track thereof on the Earth being parallel. The radar tech... | 11/23/1993 |
| 4748448 | Remote sensing apparatus for satellites The invention relates to remote sensing from a satellite of a parameter in one or more regions on the ground adjacent the satellite ground track by radar transmission. The purpose of the invention is to reduce energy consumption and optimize measurement a... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4509048 | Method and apparatus for ƊK synthetic aperture radar measurement of ocean current A synthetic aperture radar (10) is employed for Ɗk measurement of ocean current from a spacecraft (11) without the need for a narrow beam and long observation times. The SAR signal is compressed (12) to provide image data for different sections of the ch... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4463357 | Method and apparatus for calibrating the ionosphere and application to surveillance of geophysical events The columnar electron content of the ionosphere between a spacecraft (10) and a receiver (12, 14) is measured in realtime by cross correlating two coherently modulated signals transmitted at different frequencies (L1, L2) from the sp... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4101891 | Surface roughness measuring system Apparatus for obtaining significant height information of ocean waves, or peaks of rough terrain utilizing means for compressing the radar signal over different widths of the available chirp or Doppler bandwidths, and means for cross-correlating one of th... | 07/18/1978 |
