Patent ID: 9569971
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G08G,H01Q,H04B

Claim:
1. A monitoring system for the air-traffic control of flying objects which have transmitting units for transmitting air-traffic control radio signals, wherein the air-traffic control radio signals contain flight data relating to the respective aircraft, the monitoring system comprising: a plurality of receiving units configured to receive the transmitted air-traffic control radio signals; and a plurality of satellites which in each case have communication means for forming a common satellite communication network and on each of which at least one of the receiving units is in each case arranged, wherein each receiving unit of the plurality of receiving units is connected to the communication means of the respective satellite, wherein the plurality of receiving units are configured to transmit the flight data contained in the air-traffic control radio signals to at least one ground station having a communication link to the satellite communication network using a common communication protocol of the satellite communication network, wherein the receiving units have a plurality of directional receive antennas to form sector-by-sector receiving areas with overlapping receiving areas of adjacent directional receive antennas, and wherein the receiving units are configured to predict position and movement information of the flight data depending on a future transmission time at which the receiving unit transmits the flight data to the ground station via the satellite communication network.