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Air traffic management evaluation tool

  • US 8,290,696 B1
  • Filed: 01/27/2010
  • Issued: 10/16/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing aircraft traffic, the method comprising providing a computer that is configured to receive and automatically process weather-wind data associated with a geographical region and that is programmed to perform the following steps:

  • providing K measurements or estimates (K≧

    2) of a wind-weather variable W(rk) (k=1, . . . , K) at K spaced apart vector locations, r=rk;

    for a selected location vector r within or near a polyhedron determined by the K measurement locations, providing an estimate W(r;

    est) of the value of a measured or estimated weather-wind variable W(r) as a sum of continuous functions W(r;

    k), where each function W(r;

    k) is continuous, equals W(rk) when r=rk′

    and equals 0 when r=rp with p≠

    k; and

    using the estimated value W(r;

    est) as an estimate of the weather-wind variable for at least one vector r that is distinct from each of the location vectors rk.

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