Sierra Nevada Corporation

Joseph Henry Hansen, Jr

Damien Bruno Jourdan

David McMartin Howard

Jack Philip Cross

Joshua D Gleason

William Edward Brandstetter, Iii

Timothy L Sweet

Justin Michael Bode

Igor Valigura

Rodney Lee Pickens

William Gerald Wright

An imaging system for a moving vehicle aggregates pre-existing data with sensor data to provide an image of the surrounding environment in real-time. The pre-existing data are combined with data from one or more 3-D sensors, and 2-D information from a camera, to create a scene model that is rendered for display. The system accepts data from a 3-D sensor, transforms the data into a 3-D data structure, fuses the pre-existing scene data with the 3-D data structure and 2-D image data from a 2-D sensor to create a combined scene model, and renders the combined scene model for display. The system may also weight aspects of data from first and second sensors to select at least one aspect from the first sensor and another aspect from the second sensor; wherein fusing the pre-existing scene data with the sensor data uses the selected aspect from the first sensor and the selected aspect from the second sensor.

Systems and methods for generating improved environmental displays for vehicles

Methods and systems useful in determining relative position of moveable vehicle, for example including a GPS receiver, may include determining candidate integer ambiguities in groups, and performing tests to check usefulness of those candidate integer ambiguities.

Monitor based ambiguity verification for enhanced guidance quality

A method of calculating position data for an airborne aircraft using a GPS-based airborne navigation system includes the processing of a position component of a relative state function by fusing a plurality of different types of measurement data available in the GPS-based system into a weighted least squares algorithm to determine an appropriate covariance matrix for the plurality of different types of measurement data.

Method for fusing multiple GPS measurement types into a weighted least squares solution

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Joseph Henry Hansen, Jr