Radar synthetic vision system for adverse weather aircraft landing

Author

Sadjadi, Firooz ; Helgeson, Mike ; Radke, Jeff ; Stein, Gunter

Author_Institution

Lockheed Martin Corp., St. Anthony, MN, USA

Volume

35

Issue

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

14

Abstract

A synthetic vision system (SVS) is described for aid in landing aircraft in poor weather conditions. The system consists of a scanning millimeter wave radar, heads-up display and real-time signal processing hardware. A suite of fast image processing algorithms are used for enhancing and displaying of the imagery. The system has been tested in number of tower and flight demonstration during actual adverse weather conditions. The significance of the work is in both system demonstration of the overall concept and the novelty of its signal processing algorithms

Keywords

aircraft landing guidance; avionics; computer vision; radar imaging; adverse weather conditions; flight demonstration; heads-up display; image processing algorithms; landing aircraft; real-time signal processing hardware; scanning millimeter wave radar; signal processing algorithms; synthetic vision system; tower; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Machine vision; Meteorological radar; Millimeter wave radar; Radar imaging; Radar signal processing; Real time systems; Signal processing algorithms; Two dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.745676

Filename

745676