Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Patent
1997-06-23
2000-01-25
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
342 34, 342118, G01S 1308
Patent
active
060186984
ABSTRACT:
An aircraft including an approach and landing system, including a navigation unit for providing navigation information, a weather radar unit for providing radar information, a processor which receives navigation information from the navigation unit and information from the weather radar unit, the processor unit providing an output representing information concerning the aircraft in accordance with the provided navigation information and radar information, a memory for storing information representing a scene, the processor unit correlating the stored scene information with the output representing information concerning the aircraft to provide a mapped scene, a display unit for displaying the output of said processor and the mapped scene, and a steppable frequency oscillator for providing a signal which is stepped in frequency to the weather radar unit, thereby providing an increased range resolution.
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Loss Keith R.
Nicosia Joseph M.
Taylor Gordon A.
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Pipala Edward
Winged Systems Corporation
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