Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation
Patent
1996-10-25
2000-01-11
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
342 26, G06F 1550
Patent
active
060146060
ABSTRACT:
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 converts the compiled weather information to GSDB format, and transmits the GSDB encoded information to an orbiting broadcast satellite, INMARSAT, transmitting the information at a data rate of no less than 10.5 kilobits per second. The INMARSAT satellite receives that data over its P-channel and rebroadcasts the GDSB encoded weather information, in the microwave L-band, throughout the global region at a rate of no less than 10.5 KB/S. The transmission is received aboard an aircraft by means of an onboard SATCOM receiver and the output is furnished to a weather information processor. A touch sensitive liquid crystal panel display allows the pilot to select the weather function by touching a predefined icon overlain on the display's surface and in response a color graphic display of the weather is displayed for the pilot.
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Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Donnelly Arthur D.
McDonnell Douglas Corporation
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