Turbulence detection and presentation system and method
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorMartin Ian Kemp
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Abstract
A method for detecting and presenting turbulence can include obtaining turbulence datapoints indicative of at least locations and turbulence measurements obtained during one or more aircraft flights, identifying increases or decreases between the turbulence measurements in the turbulence datapoints, and visually presenting the turbulence datapoints and at least one connection between the turbulence datapoints. The turbulence datapoints can be displayed to visually indicate and differentiate between the turbulence measurements, the connections displayed to visually indicate turbulence between the locations of the turbulence measurements.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- obtaining turbulence datapoints indicative of at least locations and turbulence measurements obtained during one or more aircraft flights;
- identifying increases or decreases between the turbulence measurements in the turbulence datapoints;
- and
- visually presenting the turbulence datapoints and at least one connection between the turbulence datapoints, the turbulence datapoints displayed to visually indicate and differentiate between the turbulence measurements, the connections displayed to visually indicate turbulence between the locations of the turbulence measurements.
A turbulence detection and presentation system comprising:
- a control unit configured to obtain turbulence datapoints indicative of at least locations and turbulence measurements obtained during one or more aircraft flights, the control unit configured to identify increases or decreases between the turbulence measurements in the turbulence datapoints, the control unit configured to direct an output device to present the turbulence datapoints and at least one connection between the turbulence datapoints, the turbulence datapoints displayed to visually indicate and differentiate between the turbulence measurements, the connections displayed to visually indicate turbulence between the locations of the turbulence measurements.
A method comprising:
- obtaining sparsely located datapoints each representing a turbulence measurement, a location of the turbulence measurement, and a time at which the turbulence measurement was measured;
- identifying increases or decreases between the turbulence measurements in pairs of the datapoints;
- determining turbulence in airspace between the turbulence measurements in each of the pairs of the datapoints;
- and
- visually presenting connections between the datapoints in each of the pairs, the connections representing the turbulence in the airspace between the turbulence measurements in each of the pairs of the datapoints.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.