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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2017
Airbus Operations Sas, Toulouse, FR;
Olivier Laplace, Colomiers, FR;
Camille Caruhel, Toulouse, FR;
Pascal Laurens, Saint-Paul sur Save, FR;
Airbus Operations SAS, Toulouse, FR;
Abstract
A device comprising a radar for taking at least one radar image of the terrain in front of the aircraft in a zone containing at least one characteristic pattern, the position of the characteristic pattern being known, an image processing unit for detecting, on the radar image taken by the radar, a characteristic symbol representing the characteristic pattern, a computation unit for determining, from at least the position of the characteristic symbol in the image and from characteristics of the radar image acquisition, relative position information illustrating the position of the aircraft in relation to the characteristic pattern, and for determining the position of the aircraft, from the relative position information and from the known position of the characteristic pattern, and a unit for transmitting at least the position of the aircraft to at least one user system, for example a landing aiding system or an SVS display.