Patent Document ID: 20090290761
Application ID: 12125553
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for monitoring wind direction, speed, and turbidity, the computer implemented method comprising: monitoring a portion of visible sky for contrails produced by a high-altitude aircraft; receiving a set of images of the portion of the visible sky from a set of cameras, wherein the set of cameras is one or more cameras; identifying a contrail produced by the high-altitude aircraft in at least one image of the set of images; adjusting a position of the set of cameras to track movement of the contrail across the portion of the visible sky; generating contrail data based on the set of images, wherein the contrail data describes characteristics of the contrail, wherein the characteristics of the contrail include spread of the contrail and movement of the contrail across a field of view of the set of cameras; identifying coordinates of the high-altitude aircraft; and identifying wind conditions using results of a comparison of the contrail data and the coordinates of the high-altitude aircraft.