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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Mark B. Godfrey, Melbourne, FL (US);
Jacob G. Teague, West Melbourne, FL (US);
Alexander C. Brokman, Melbourne, FL (US);
Derek G. White, Indialantic, FL (US);
Alexander M. Oransky, Melbourne, FL (US);
Mark C. Fersdahl, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
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.