Patent ID: 9632171
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G01S

Claim:
1. An acoustic vehicle tracking system comprising: a structurally supportive first body member positioned in an airfield and mounted on a first existing powered fixture; a first acoustic sensor carried by the first body member powered by the first existing powered fixture and configured to receive a first audio signal emitted from a vehicle operating near the airfield; a second acoustic sensor carried by the structurally supportive body member powered by the first existing powered fixture and configured to receive a second audio signal emitted from the vehicle operating near the airfield; a structurally supportive second body member positioned in the airfield mounted on a second existing powered fixture spaced from the first existing powered fixture; a first acoustic sensor carried by the second body member powered by the second existing powered fixture and configured to receive audio signals emitted from the vehicle operating near the airfield; a second acoustic sensor carried by the structurally supportive second body member powered by the second existing powered fixture and configured to receive audio signals emitted from the vehicle operating near the airfield; a plurality of geographic and temporal awareness devices that are respectively associated with each one the acoustic sensors powered by the same power source powering each respective acoustic sensor, wherein each geographic and temporal awareness device identifies a location and position in a global awareness of time at each respective sensor; beam forming logic configured to determine a location of the vehicle based, at least in part, on the first audio signal received at the first acoustic sensor on the first body member and the second audio signal received at the second acoustic sensor on the first body member and the audio signals received at the first acoustic sensor and received at the second acoustic sensor on the second body member; and a display logic configured to display the location of the vehicle on a visual display.