Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Alexander C Brokman

Jacob G Teague

Mark C Fersdahl

Mark B Godfrey

Yoel Sonera

Derek G White

Alexander M Oransky

Don H Eldredge, Jr

Jeffrey J Cyr

Lisa A Cole

A weather radar system includes a non-transitory processor-readable medium that causes a processor to control a radar antenna to conduct a vertical radar scan of a weather cell over a vertical scan area and first and second horizontal scan segments of a horizontal radar scan over first and second horizontal scan areas; receive radar return data indicative of a characteristic of each scan area; determine a first and second altitude of a storm top of the weather cell for first and second locations based on the characteristic of a scan area; and cause a display device to display storm top height data indicative of the storm top of the weather cell based on the radar return data. The first horizontal scan segment is conducted at the first altitude and the second horizontal scan segment is conducted at the second altitude and with a higher resolution than the other radar scans.

Storm top adaptive beam scan

A method and system. The method includes receiving weather radar data. The method further includes filtering out weather from the weather radar data to provide filtered radar data. Additionally, the method includes determining whether the filtered radar data includes any non-weather targets. If any of the non-weather targets is a hazard target, the method includes storing data associated with the hazard target in a hazard data structure.

Avian hazard detection and classification using airborne weather radar system

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Melbourne, FL, United States of America

Alexander C Brokman