Patent ID: 8692703

Claim:
A system for providing the capability for a vehicle to avoid regions of signal interference from high energy (HE) electromagnetic (EM) radiation emitters, comprising: a) a processing module; b) a database operatively connected to said processing module, said database comprising a plurality of geographical areas affected by HE EM radiation emitters and data associated with said geographical areas, said data including location, lateral and vertical extents, and signal attenuation for selected geographical areas affected by HE EM radiation emitters; c) a display system operatively connected to said processing module, wherein said processing module is configured to receive information regarding the position of the vehicle and query the database to retrieve relevant HE EM radiation emitters which are a signal interference threat to the vehicle's ability to properly navigate or communicate, said relevant HE EM radiation emitters being displayed on said display system; and, d) a flight management system (FMS) operatively connected to said processing module, wherein said relevant HE EM radiation emitters are determined by processing specific characteristics of the HE EM radiation emitters in said database and the level of the combined products produced by those emitters in combination, wherein said HE EM radiation emitters are selected from the group, consisting of: broadcast television towers, broadcast radio, cellular phone towers, microwave repeater stations, ground-based radar stations, radio relay antennas, and co-channel emitters, wherein said processing module is configured to use a flight plan from said FMS to determine areas where interference could occur along the route and region between the present or initial position and destination, said FMS not doing calculations of possible interference based on the emitters from the database, but using results from the processing module to determine if the selected route or others it might specify would be interference-controlled.