Patent ID: 9535158
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G01S,Y02A

Claim:
1. A method of displaying an image representative of a weather condition near an aircraft, the method comprising: receiving weather data representative of the weather condition from a plurality of weather data sources, the weather data including location data for the weather condition; mapping the weather data received from each source to a common locational reference frame based on the location data; adjusting the weather data received from each source to a common hazard scale; determining a hazard level associated with the weather condition for a reference point in the reference frame based on the adjusted weather data for each source; and displaying the image representative of the weather condition near the aircraft based on the hazard level for the reference point; wherein adjusting the weather data comprises adjusting a portion of the weather data received from a first source of the plurality of weather data sources based on a characteristic of the weather condition indicated by the weather data received from a second source of the plurality of weather data sources, and adjusting the weather data by retaining the shape of a curve defined by the portion of the weather data received from the first source.