AUTOMATED WIDE-RANGING (LARGE-SCALE) ANTI-HAIL PROTECTION METHOD AND A NETWORK
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Abstract
The present invention relates to hail warning and prevention.
An automated method of wide-ranging anti-hail protection including reception of sky proper radiothermal emission in M sites, its comparison with corresponding thresholds, generation command signals to detonate combustible gas and to direct shock waves upwardly to the sky, generation and transmission alert signals, reception of transmitted alert signals in each M sites, comparison with proper code-signals of that site and setting alert operational mode of sonic generator.
An automated network of anti-hail protection including M hail preventing sonic set in M sites of anti-hail protection area any of which comprises an antenna, a radiometric receiver, a controlled compensation device, a controlled multi-channel threshold system, a warner a transmitter, a receiver, a code-signal comparison device, a first controlling switcher, a controlled single-channel thresholder and a second controlling switcher.
It is enhanced operation efficiency and is automated exploitation of an anti-hail protection network.
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47 Claims
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26. An automated wide-ranging anti-hail protection network, comprising:
an anti-hail protection system of a plurality of anti-hail protection systems, each of the plurality of anti-hail protection systems located at a corresponding site within one of a plurality of hail-protected areas, wherein the anti-hail protection system includes; a hail preventing sonic generator configured to send shock waves upwardly to the sky to disrupt formation of hail; a controller configured to control a mode of operation of the hail preventing sonic generator; and a detector-warner device configured to perform hail detection and command the controller, the detector-warner device including an antenna configured to receive signals corresponding to sky-intrinsic emissions in radiofrequencies for the corresponding site of the anti-hail protection system, a radiometric receiver configured to measure a power of the received signals of the sky-intrinsic emissions and estimate a sky-apparent temperature for the corresponding site, a transmitter configured to transmit alert code-signals responsive to the corresponding site sky-intrinsic emissions exceeding a predetermined threshold value, a receiver configured to receive alert code-signals transmitted from another of the plurality of anti-hail protection systems, and a controlled code comparator configured to compare alert code-signals with proper alert code-signals of the corresponding site and command the controller to cause the hail preventing sonic generator to disrupt hail formation responsive to the alert code-signals matching the corresponding site. - View Dependent Claims (27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. An automated wide-ranging anti-hail protection method, comprising:
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measuring signals of sky radio thermal emission radiofrequencies using a radiometric receiver to identify clouds using at least one of a plurality of sites of an anti-hail protected area network; providing a signal corresponding to a sum of powers of the signal of external emissions; comparing the signal with a corresponding threshold, and generating an output signal responsive to the accumulated signal exceeding the threshold, the output signal indicating the accumulated signal exceeded the threshold; transmitting a code-signal in accordance with the output signal to a controller of a hail preventing sonic generator of the site; comparing received code-signals with proper alert code-signals of the site; and commanding the hail preventing sonic generator to send shock waves upwardly to the sky to disrupt formation of hail responsive to the alert code-signals matching the alert code-signals of the site. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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