Method and apparatus for monitoring vehicle ground movement in the vicinity of an airport
CA 1202104 A · Owner: General Signal Corporation · Inventors: Rost, David P.; Holcombe, Paul; Hackenberg, William
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Radar return video signals obtained in the vicinity of, an airport having at least one runway and at least one vehicle roadway intersecting the runway, are processed for selected geographical monitored locations. Means responsive to real time video signals from a radar apparatus repeatedly isolates radar returns from each of the geographic monitored locations and further means repeatedly compares these radar returns with a simulated return for each corresponding location to detect, a moving object at any of the monitored locations. When a moving object is detected, an alarm is sounded to alert an operator to the presence of the moving object.
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- Granted March 18, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 18, 2003.
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