This disclosure is directed to weather radar configured to act as a communication device to allow real time data communication. This disclosure describes using weather radar on board aircraft as a high bandwidth X-band radio for communication. The X-band weather radar is used for receiving flight related data and weather-related data while still acting as a weather radar. As the weather radar system is already present on most commercial aircraft, there is no requirement for additional hardware, devices or equipment onboard the aircraft to meet the data communication needs. An airport may install an X-band data transmitter to broadcast digital data received from detection systems at or near an airport such as an Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS), predictive wind shear (PWS) and bird strike warning systems.


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    Title :

    Data communication between airport surveillance radar and onboard airborne weather radar


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2019-03-26


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    G08G Anlagen zur Steuerung, Regelung oder Überwachung des Verkehrs , TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung



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    GHAROTE YOGESH PRABHAKAR / RAMACHANDRA VENKATESH | European Patent Office | 2018

    Free access

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    Airborne Weather Radar

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