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Systems and methods for collecting weather information for selected airspace regions

  • US 10,102,759 B2
  • Filed: 09/25/2015
  • Issued: 10/16/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for collecting weather information for selected airspace regions, the method comprising:

  • receiving aircraft position information for a plurality of aircraft;

    forming an aircraft weather group based on flight path attributes derived from the aircraft position information;

    selecting one or more representative aircraft from the aircraft weather group; and

    receiving, at a weather information ground station, weather data from the one or more representative aircraft of the aircraft weather group, wherein only the one or more representative aircraft transmit weather information to the weather information ground station from the aircraft weather group;

    wherein the selecting the one or more representative aircraft further comprises;

    broadcasting position information to the aircraft weather group, the position information comprising a position for each aircraft in the aircraft weather group and a position of the weather information ground station; and

    wherein the one or more representative aircraft has selected itself as the one or more representative aircraft based on the position information broadcast to the aircraft weather group.

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