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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Airbus Operations (S.a.s.), Toulouse, FR;
Inventors:
Thierry Bourret, Toulouse, FR;
Kenji Ahualle Horimoto, Sao Paulo, BR;
Assignee:
AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), Toulouse, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/08 (2006.01); G05D 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/88 (2006.01); G01C 5/00 (2006.01); G01C 5/06 (2006.01); G01C 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/0086 (2013.01); G01C 5/005 (2013.01); G01C 5/06 (2013.01); G01C 23/00 (2013.01); G01S 13/882 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device comprising a computation unit for computing, for each of a plurality of different distances relative to a threshold of a landing runway along a lateral approach trajectory, a geometric altitude, using a measured and stored barometric altitude, a computation unit for computing a terrain height, by subtracting, from the computed geometric altitude, a measured and stored height, and a computation unit for determining a terrain profile from the set of terrain heights computed for the set of different distances.