Patent ID: 7755495

Claim:
A method of processing data associated with acoustic weapon fire events, the method comprising: performing aerial deployment of at least three aerial sensors across an area to be monitored, wherein each of the at least three sensors comprises a microphone for detecting a weapon fire event, and wherein the location of each of the at least three sensors is known; networking the at least three aerial sensors via a network; processing signals communicated over the network from one or more sensors that detect the weapon fire event, wherein the signals include time of arrival data as to when a muzzle blast from with the weapon fire event was detected at the one or more sensors, with each time of arrival being obtained from a synchronized or absolute time source associated with a sensor that detected the weapon fire event; and determining an approximate location of a source of the weapon fire event as a function of arrival time and sensor location data; wherein the approximate location of the source of the weapon fire event is determined as a function of one or more of temperature, relative humidity, and/or air pressure.