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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2015
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Rolf R. Stefani, West River, MD (US);
James Gary Cooper, Jr., Annapolis, MD (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for employing local, opportunistic Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) information to augment other source 'knowledge' of local aircraft position information for improving situational awareness in areas lacking ADS-B coverage provided by other aircraft control agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), other Civil Aviation Authorities (CAAs), and/or other Air Traffic Control (ATC) entities. Locally-received, e.g., in a vicinity of a UAV or sUAS, ADS-B positional information is received by a UAV, sUAS or associated ground control station and integrated on a display component of the ground control station, e.g., a pilot display, for the UAV or sUAS. Received positional information is forwarded to other interested users/systems, including those associated with agencies or entities in overall tactical, operational or surveillance control of a particular area of operations, as appropriate as an integrated situational awareness map display picture.