| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7369053 |
De-icing information system |
May 6, 2008 |
| A de-icing information system processes weather data indicating precipitation rate and temperature to determine a check time for a de-icing fluid. The de-icing fluid remains effective if applied after the check time, and the de-icing fluid may not remain effective if applied before t |
| 7340949 |
Precipitation measurement device |
March 11, 2008 |
| A precipitation measurement device measures a precipitation rate of falling precipitation. A first probe is exposed to the falling precipitation. A first temperature sensor detects a first probe temperature. A second probe is shielded from the falling precipitation. A second temperat |
| 7191643 |
Sensor system to distinguish frozen and non-frozen liquid particulates |
March 20, 2007 |
| A sensor system comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, and circuitry. The first sensor collects non-frozen liquid with a first collection efficiency, but does not collect frozen liquid. The second sensor collects non-frozen liquid with a second collection efficiency and also coll |
| 7156552 |
Temperature sensor system for mobile platforms |
January 2, 2007 |
| A temperature sensor system includes a body and window arrangement. The body defines an air intake and is flush mounted to a mobile platform having a boundary layer. The window arrangement is integrated into the body and transfers a first signal and receives a second signal. The seco |
| 7129846 |
De-icing information system |
October 31, 2006 |
| A de-icing information system processes weather data indicating precipitation rate and temperature to determine a check time for a de-icing fluid. The de-icing fluid remains effective if applied after the check time, and the de-icing fluid may not remain effective if applied before t |
| 7053813 |
Radar system |
May 30, 2006 |
| A radar system determines the range and velocity of a target, such as an atmospheric structure. The radar system transfers a first series of pulses and a second series of pulses. The first series of pulses and the second series of pulses have orthogonal polarizations. The first series |
| 6997050 |
Aerial sampler system |
February 14, 2006 |
| A sensor system includes an enclosure mounted externally on an aerial vehicle and a sensor chamber mounted internally within the aerial vehicle. The enclosure receives and converges air particles to cause inertial separation that transfers a first portion of the air particles to a fi |
| 6853331 |
Method of compensating for atmospheric effects while using near horizon radar utilizing a Dopple |
February 8, 2005 |
| A method of compensating for atmospheric effects to detect the actual location of low elevation objects using near horizon radar to detect an object which utilizes a preexisting satellite structured to send a signal indicating the position and velocity of said satellite, wherein the |
| 6833805 |
Method of compensating for atmospheric effects while using near horizon radar |
December 21, 2004 |
| A method of compensating for atmospheric effects to detect the actual location of low elevation objects using near horizon radar to detect an object which utilizes a preexisting satellite, wherein the location of the satellite is known. The method includes a step of providing a radar sit |
| 6813563 |
Atmospheric data measurement system |
November 2, 2004 |
| An atmospheric data measurement system comprises an atmospheric sensor, personal digital assistant, link, power system, and enclosure. The atmospheric sensor measures an atmospheric parameter and generates data indicating the atmospheric parameter. The link transfers the data from the |
| 6809648 |
Aerial sampler system |
October 26, 2004 |
| An aerial sampler system includes an enclosure, a transfer system, and a measurement system. The enclosure is connected to an external surface of an aerial vehicle and receives atmospheric flow from the external surface of the aerial vehicle. The enclosure also directs at least some of t |
| 6756592 |
Apparatus for gas filter correlation radiometry and methods for 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional |
June 29, 2004 |
| A system for tomographic sounding using infrared radiation, said system comprising a plurality of gas correlation cameras, each of said cameras comprising at least two gas correlation cells, one of said cells filled with a first gas capable of absorbing infrared radiation at one infrared |
| 6751571 |
Hot plate precipitation measuring system |
June 15, 2004 |
| A precipitation measuring system comprising a top thermal plate positioned to maximize exposure to falling precipitation and includes at least one ridge circumscribing the top surface for capturing precipitation. A second thermal plate is positioned under the top thermal plate to protect |
| 6735550 |
Feature classification for time series data |
May 11, 2004 |
| A processing system uses image processing technology to classify features in time series data. In atmospheric applications, the features can be used to detect outliers and/or failure modes in time series data from atmospheric measurement systems. The processing system is configured to: |
| 6731906 |
Method and system for determining the phase and amplitude of a radio occultation signal |
May 4, 2004 |
| The present system for determining the phase and amplitude of a radio occultation signal modifies the traditional Open Loop tracking process to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio, minimize the sampling rate, and also preserve the structure of the radio occultation signals. A radio oc |
| 6714869 |
Hot plate precipitation measuring system |
March 30, 2004 |
| A precipitation measuring system comprising a top thermal plate positioned to maximize exposure to falling precipitation and includes at least one ridge circumscribing the top surface for capturing precipitation. A second thermal plate is positioned under the top thermal plate to protect |
| 6711521 |
Hot plate precipitation measuring system |
March 23, 2004 |
| A precipitation measuring system comprising a top thermal plate positioned to maximize exposure to falling precipitation and includes at least one ridge circumscribing the top surface for capturing precipitation. A second thermal plate is positioned under the top thermal plate to protect |
| 6675100 |
Hot plate precipitation measuring system |
January 6, 2004 |
| A precipitation measuring system comprising a top thermal plate positioned to maximize exposure to falling precipitation and includes at least one ridge circumscribing the top surface for capturing precipitation. A second thermal plate is positioned under the top thermal plate to protect |
| 6633596 |
Frequency stable pulsed laser |
October 14, 2003 |
| A slave pulsed laser stabilizes the frequency by using the master laser frequency to stabilize a cavity in the slave pulsed laser. The slave pulsed laser includes an optical modulator, a cavity, a cavity modifier, and an output generator. The cavity includes an end reflector, a laser |
| 6581266 |
Method and apparatus for pivotally mounting instrumentation on a line |
June 24, 2003 |
| The instrument package mounting apparatus comprises an axle that serves to eliminate the need to wrap a tether line about the axle. In particular, the axle comprises a cylindrical solid configured with a slot extending from the outer surface of the axle to a substantially central axis |
| 6577265 |
Multi-stage processing for efficient and accurate spectral moment estimation |
June 10, 2003 |
| A multi-stage processing system receives data from signals that indicate information related to scatterers, such as signals from a Doppler scanning system. The multi-stage processing system tracks allowed processing time for the data. The multi-stage processing system performs a first st |
| 6546353 |
Hot plate precipitation measuring system |
April 8, 2003 |
| A precipitation measuring system comprising a top thermal plate positioned to maximize exposure to falling precipitation and includes at least one ridge circumscribing the top surface for capturing precipitation. A second thermal plate is positioned under the top thermal plate to protect |
| 6536948 |
Determining temperature of a physical medium using remote measurement |
March 25, 2003 |
| A method, software, and system determines temperature of a physical medium using remote measurements. One example of a physical medium is a cloud. A receiver receives at least one first received signal from an interaction of at least one first transmitted electromagnetic signal with the |
| 6512996 |
System for measuring characteristic of scatterers using spaced receiver remote sensors |
January 28, 2003 |
| The system for measuring characteristics of scatterers by spaced receiver remote sensors uses a method based on calculation and analysis of the auto- and cross-structure functions for return signals. The method enhances operational capabilities of spaced receiver remote sensors by pr |
| 6456229 |
Bistatic radar network having incoherent transmitter operating in a scanning mode to identify sc |
September 24, 2002 |
| The bistatic radar network uses an incoherent transmitter for determining the presence, locus, motion, and characteristics of scatterers in a predefined space. The incoherent transmitter generates pulses of high frequency energy that vary in frequency and/or phase. The bistatic radar |
| 6377204 |
Radar system having multiple simultaneously transmitted beams operating in a scanning mode to id |
April 23, 2002 |
| The multiple beam radar system uses multiple simultaneously transmitted beams of high frequency energy to identify scatterers that are located in a predetermined volume of space. This multiple beam radar system simultaneously transmits several beams of high frequency energy, produced |
| 6356232 |
High resolution ionospheric technique for regional area high-accuracy global positioning system |
March 12, 2002 |
| A Global Positioning System includes a ground monitoring network having a plurality of dual frequency receivers that obtain ionospheric delay measurements to provide double difference ionospheric delay residuals. These double difference delay residuals are converted to zero differences |
| 6307500 |
Method of moment estimation and feature extraction for devices which measure spectra as a functi |
October 23, 2001 |
| The computation system of the present invention comprises an improved method of moment estimation for devices which measure spectra as a function of range or time. The preferred embodiment of this system is illustrated as part of an automated meteorological monitoring system for the |
| 6298307 |
User specific real-time weather information source for compiling time varying weather conditions |
October 2, 2001 |
| The best-in-time forecasting system customizes its output forecast to the specific needs of a user and an identified event, which forecast is optimized as a function of the length of time between the receipt of the request and the time of the event. The best-in-time forecasting system |
| 6144899 |
Recoverable airborne instrument platform |
November 7, 2000 |
| The recoverable airborne instrument platform accurately determines its present position and uses this data to execute a predetermined flight plan and ultimately guide its descent to a predetermined landing site. This is accomplished by installing the instrument package payload in the |
| 6085147 |
System for determination of optimal travel path in a multidimensional space |
July 4, 2000 |
| 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 the vehicle as well as phenomena extant in the multidimensional space, which phenomena |
| 6067852 |
Method and apparatus using slant-path water delay estimates to correct global positioning satell |
May 30, 2000 |
| An atmospheric water vapor sensing system uses Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) to determine the refractivity and Slant-path Water Vapor Delay (SWD) between an Earth-based GPS receiver and a plurality of satellite-based GPS transmitters. The system provides improved precision in p |
| 5973635 |
Enhanced microburst detection system |
October 26, 1999 |
| A weather radar system (21) utilizing enhanced fuzzy logic processing (300) to detect atmospheric microburst events. In addition to the wind shear likelihood (250), low level surface reflectivity likelihood (252), and clutter likelihood (254) used by existing fuzzy logic based microburst |
| 5940523 |
Method of moment estimation and feature extraction for devices which measure spectra as a functi |
August 17, 1999 |
| The computation system of the present invention comprises an improved method of moment estimation for devices which measure spectra as a function of range or time. The preferred embodiment of this system is illustrated as part of an automated meteorological monitoring system for the |
| 5850619 |
Frozen precipitation accumlation alert system |
December 15, 1998 |
| A frozen precipitation accumulation alert system for a target area wherein the system comprises a means and apparatus for measuring at least one meteorological indicator in at least one measurement location proximate to the target area, detecting meteorological structure using radar data |
| 5777481 |
Ice detection using radiometers |
July 7, 1998 |
| A radiometer system detects naturally occurring atmospheric microwave radiation in three bands at approximately 20, 30, and 90 GHz. Signals representing radiation intensity at each of these bands is converted into a brightness temperature and used as a system input to a processing system |
| 5751289 |
Virtual reality imaging system with image replay |
May 12, 1998 |
| The virtual reality imaging system takes a multidimensional space that contains real world objects and phenomena, be they static or dynamic in nature, and enables a user to define a point in and/or a path through this multidimensional space. The apparatus then displays the view to the us |
| 5744711 |
Winter precipitation measuring system |
April 28, 1998 |
| A winter precipitation measuring system for quantifying the precipitation rate of winter precipitation at a given point on the Earth's surface. The winter precipitation measuring system includes an elongated tube, a thermal plate within the elongated tube, and a method and apparatus for |
| 5689722 |
Multipipeline multiprocessor system |
November 18, 1997 |
| The multipipeline multiprocessor includes communication hardware and parallel communication algorithms that are free of contention but also optimal in the sense that communication time is minimized for any vector computation task. This apparatus makes use of a hypercube processor int |
| 5675081 |
Atmospheric water vapor sensing system using global positioning satellites |
October 7, 1997 |
| An atmospheric water vapor sensing system using Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) to determine the refractivity and Slant-path Water Vapor (SWV) between an Earth-based GPS receiver and a plurality of satellite-based GPS transmitters. Either the refractivity measure or the SWV measu |
| 5648782 |
Microburst detection system |
July 15, 1997 |
| A radar station utilizes fuzzy logic processing to detect atmospheric microburst events. The detection process accesses radar velocity measurements to calculate wind shear and produce a wind shear likelihood image. Reflectivity measurements are used to create a reflectivity likelihoo |
| 5636480 |
Facility for preparing and deploying sounding devices |
June 10, 1997 |
| The facility for preparing and deploying atmospheric sounding devices of the present invention, makes use of a structure with a retractable cover and a wind deflecting member circumscribing the shelter, to provide a transportable, reliable, and cost effective facility to prepare and depl |
| 5589833 |
Radar acquisition system |
December 31, 1996 |
| The personal computer based integrated radar acquisition (PIRAQ) system integrates a programmable timing generator, a digital Intermediate Frequency (IF) processor, and a digital signal processor on a standardized personal computer "add-on" electronic circuit module that accepts standard |
| 5566331 |
Mass storage system for file-systems |
October 15, 1996 |
| The mass storage system functions to archive, store, retrieve and manage the plurality of data files that comprise a typical file-system as a single uninterpreted bitfile. Client data processors access this file-system on a shared, channel-attached direct access storage device the sa |
| 5563352 |
Gas concentration and injection system for chromatographic analysis of organic trace gases |
October 8, 1996 |
| A system for concentrating and injecting individual organic components of a gas sample into a gas chromatography system. The concentration and injection system includes a first tube longitudinally disposed within a second tube, with a columnar space therebetween. The second tube carries |
| 5553508 |
Portable intelligent whole air sampling system |
September 10, 1996 |
| The portable intelligent whole air sampling system performs in situ air sampling over multiple time periods at individually programmable times, rates and volumes. The system contains multiple independent disposable syringes that collectively provide a large sampling capacity for a large |
| 5490239 |
Virtual reality imaging system |
February 6, 1996 |
| The virtual reality imaging system takes a multidimensional space that contains real world objects and phenomena, be they static or dynamic in nature, and enables a user to define a point and/or a path through this multidimensional space. The apparatus then displays the view to the user |
| 5486835 |
Low cost telemetry receiving system |
January 23, 1996 |
| A low cost telemetry receiving system for use with an atmospheric sounding device includes an antenna configuration mounted on an azimuthally rotatable platform. The antennas have an asymmetrically shaped receiving beam having a narrow azimuth and wide elevation. The wide elevation is |
| 5471211 |
Receiver antenna for bistatic doppler radar network |
November 28, 1995 |
| A multiple-Doppler radar network can be constructed using only one, traditional, transmitting pencil-beam radar and one or more passive, non-transmitting receiving sites. Radiation scattered from the pencil beam of the transmitting radar as it penetrates weather targets can be detected |
| 5469169 |
Receiver for bistatic doppler radar network |
November 21, 1995 |
| A multiple Doppler radar network can be constructed using only one, traditional, transmitting pencil-beam radar and one or more passive, non-transmitting receiving sites. Radiation scattered from the pencil beam of the transmitting radar as it penetrates weather targets can be detected |
