This invention discloses a remote observation system and a method for automatically analyzing the region of interest and detecting the occurrence and/or existence and/or type of a foreign object debris (FOD) on the areas of including but not limited to the airport runways, taxiways, aprons and adjacent areas. The invention makes use of single or multiple passive optical sensors for signal acquisition and a processing unit to further analyze the captured optical signal in order to issue an alarm status in case of the detection of the foreign debris in various threat levels, ie. low, medium, high depending on the estimated area and foreign object size and visual characteristics.
A METHOD FOR FOREIGN OBJECT DEBRIS DETECTION
VERFAHREN ZUR FREMDKÖRPERABLAGERUNGSDETEKTION
PROCÉDÉ DE DÉTECTION DE DÉBRIS D'OBJETS ÉTRANGERS
2017-04-12
Patent
Electronic Resource
English