Patent ID: 6347549
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: G01W

Abstract:
A system for enhancing an estimate of the location of a lightning related weather pattern relative to a moving platform comprising:a) a receiver, supported on the platform, responsive to electrical signals generated by the lightning in a predetermined frequency bad, b) a processor responsive to an output of the receiver for b1) at one times determining the relative azimuth of a source of the electrical signals, for b2) at a later time, determining the relative azimuth of a source of the electrical signals, for also b3) updating a relative azimuth indication obtained at the one time to offset the motion of the platform between the one and the later time to produce an updated azimuth indication, and for, b4) combining both the relative azimuth indication obtained at the later time and the updated azimuth indication to estimate the location of the weather pattern.