The United States of America As Represented by the Administrator

Timothy N Munson

Jess Brooks Thomas, Jr

Lawrence E Young

Thomas K Meehan

Jeffrey M Srinivasan

Courtney B Duncan

George H Purcell, Jr

This is a system for measuring ocean surface currents from an airborne platform. A radar system having two spaced antennas wherein one antenna is driven and return signals from the ocean surface are detected by both antennas is employed to get raw ocean current data which is saved for later processing. There are a pair of GPS systems including a first antenna carried by the platform at a first location and a second antenna carried by the platform at a second location displaced from the first antenna for determining the position of the antennas from signals from orbiting GPS navigational satellites. This data is also saved for later processing. The saved data is subsequently processed by a ground-based computer system to determine the position, orientation, and velocity of the platform as well as to derive measurements of currents on the ocean surface.

Growing community of inventors

La Crescenta, CA, United States of America

Timothy N Munson