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Bi-static radar processing for ADS-B sensors

  • US 8,130,135 B2
  • Filed: 10/14/2009
  • Issued: 03/06/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A process for determining a position of a non-Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (non-ADSB) equipped aircraft comprises:

  • receiving, in a bi-static receiving system, a first group of signals from a first ADSB equipped aircraft;

    receiving, in the bi-static receiving system, a second group of signals from a first non-ADSB equipped aircraft; and

    processing the first and second group of signals in the bi-static receiving system using a bi-static radar processing technique by determining an azimuth position of an interrogator antenna using the first group of signals and determining a position of the non-ADSB equipped aircraft using the second group of signals.

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