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WO/1998/020372A1 |
A winter precipitation measuring system for quantifying the precipitation rate of winter precipitation at a given point on the Earth's surface. The winter precipitation measuring system includes an elongated tube, a thermal plate within ...
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WO/1998/015122A1 |
A communication system having programmable, addressable receivers that receive, store, process, and send digital and conventional video, audio and control signals for use in, among other things, a cable video network (9). Conventional au...
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WO/1998/003837A1 |
The present invention relates to the field of computerised measuring techniques used to obtain and process metrological information for general purpose or specific applications. According to the present method, the output channel of a fo...
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WO/1998/001775A1 |
The invention discloses a rain gauge comprising a first device for collecting (5) rain water, mounted tilting between two stable positions for delivering, with each tilt, a preset amount of rain water and a second collecting device (10),...
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WO/1998/001773A1 |
The invention discloses a bioclimatological station for establishing in-situ the energy balance of a plant canopy and determining its water demand from parameters measured by sensors provided in the station and a software operated by a c...
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WO/1998/001774A1 |
The invention discloses a device for providing greater stability to the movement of closed meteorological balloons made of dilatable material. It concerns a device to increase both the vortex of the balloon boundary layer and its aerodyn...
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WO/1998/001929A1 |
The invention concerns a device for protecting a site (10) against the impact of lightning. The device comprises: means (12, 16) for detecting a lightning discharge approaching towards the site; at least one lightning arrester (36) and m...
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WO/1998/000736A1 |
The invention relates to an optical fluid flow meter, preferably a rain gauge, performing reproducible measurements at a low current consumption. The invention benefits from the optical properties of rain drops, and is therefore not sens...
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WO/1997/046430A1 |
The invention relates to a device for detecting moisture on a window pane with a moisture sensor which has a measuring circuit (MS) with a light-emitting transmitter and a receiver transmitting a sensor signal and responding to the emitt...
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WO/1997/037288A1 |
A method and apparatus for sensing condensed moisture on the inside of automotive windows (10) with essentially no sensitivity to precipitation on the outside of the window (10). The method is based on sensing the influence of the moistu...
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WO/1997/036165A1 |
This invention describes a method by which microparticles, typically in the size range from 0.3'mu'm to 100'mu'm, which are carried in a fluid suspension, may be rapidly detected and characterised. The method primarily relates to the mea...
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WO/1997/033187A1 |
The invention provides a system for passive measurement of atmospheric temperature using a passive direction detector for detecting the energy of a narrow wavelength band emanating from a volume of atmospheric gas. The resulting signal c...
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WO/1997/026613A1 |
A system and method for forecasting future retail performance are described herein. The system includes a storage device that stores a sales history database (304), and a weather forecast database (312). An analyzer (106) determines the ...
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WO/1997/021119A1 |
An atmospheric water vapor sensing system using Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) (120-124) to determine the refractivity and Slant-path Water Vapor (SWV) between an Earth-based GPS receiver (105) and a plurality of satellite-based GPS...
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WO/1997/005460A1 |
An apparatus (30) for measuring the properties of the tropopause (26) includes a variable frequency microwave radiometer (40) operating over a range of from about 118.0 to about 119.0 GHz. The radiometer (40) receives as an input a frequ...
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WO/1997/005508A2 |
A lightning detection system for detecting and locating an initial discharge of an initial leader stroke of a lightning flash. An initial lightning discharge produces a pulse that can be used to accurately detect lightning, and more part...
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WO/1997/002492A1 |
An indicator light consisting of a panel (10) supporting juxtaposed and alternating blue, yellow, green and red neon tubes where the colours correspond to the cardinal points north, east, south and west respectively. The tubes (21, 22, 2...
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WO/1996/030783A1 |
The objective of the invention is a radiometer and a method for indicating water content, e.g. water content change caused by water vapor and/or liquid water. The method observes noise temperature changes by receiving with a receiver mic...
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WO/1996/030784A1 |
The method for estimating the flow of water at the outlet of a catchment basin includes an initialising stage (21) wherein the catchment basin is divided into a set of basic catchment areas (BVE), and each BVE is assigned a first datum r...
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WO/1996/029619A1 |
Apparatus for drawing a contour map of a spatial area (e.g. a country) comprises means (10, 20) for recording a set of first data values (e.g. temperature), each measured at a respective predetermined point in the spatial area. Means (40...
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WO/1996/029597A1 |
A method wherein a lighter-than-water probe provided with suitable sensors is dropped by means of a ballast (d) to the seabed; the raising of the probe and the activation of the sensor are controlled (e) in order to record (f) a measurem...
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WO/1996/026430A1 |
The invention concerns a process and device for determining the surface state of highways in particular, with respect to dryness, wet or icing-over. The surface is irradiated by a radiation source comprising an infrared component and the...
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WO/1996/018894A1 |
A contaminant detection system (100, 410, 800, 830) includes a transmitter (102, 122, 422, 442, 472, 516, 716, 736, 737, 810, 838, 846) for transmitting a guided wave (128, 420) through the skin (114, 422, 440, 470, 520, 532, 710, 712, 7...
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WO/1996/018916A1 |
A system of atmospheric remote sensing instruments that utilize a common phased-array acoustic antenna so as to take temperature and wind measurements over a wide range of altitudes. One of the atmospheric remote sensing instruments in t...
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WO/1996/013737A1 |
The facility for preparing and deploying atmospheric sounding devices of the present invention, makes use of a structure (100) with a retractable cover (110) and a wind deflecting member (105) circumscribing the shelter (100), to provide...
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WO/1996/013427A1 |
To determine whether ice is present on an aircraft wing, the intensity of light in a band between 1.16 and 1.20 microns is determined as is the intensity in a band between 1.24 and 1.28 microns. The contrast, defined as the difference be...
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WO/1996/013736A1 |
An integrated control system (130) for use with an atmospheric sounding device (106) and a telemetry receiving system (120). The control system (130) can control semi-automated or fully automated sounding device preparation and/or deploy...
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WO/1996/013144A2 |
This invention is for a method and apparatus for determining the presence of thermal activity (13) in a volume of atmosphere (12), and has particular application in enabling and prolonging the flight of unpowered aircraft (16) and model ...
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WO/1996/005524A1 |
A sound detection and ranging (SODAR) system for taking wind measurements by sending out acoustic pulses and then measuring acoustic energy reflected back to the instrument by the atmosphere. The acoustic pulses are formed using digital ...
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WO/1995/028646A1 |
A method for monitoring lightning protection equipment comprising an earthing line (1) by measuring the electric current or lightning current flowing through the earthing line. The measurement is obtained by means of a self-contained mag...
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WO/1995/025966A1 |
A method for automatically providing weather advisories for an airport to pilots comprises monitoring weather conditions at the airport and then generating weather advisories in response to these weather conditions. The broadcast traffic...
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WO/1995/023985A1 |
Snow sensing apparatus comprises a hollow can (5) having a cap (6) with a domed outer surface and made of material of high thermal conductivity and low specific heat. The cap (6) is sealed to the casing (5) by means of a sealing ring (8)...
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WO/1995/023082A1 |
Proposed is a rain sensor in which an effective optical radiation (11) is subjected to at least one total internal reflecti1n in a pane (16). The effective radiation (11) emerging from the pane (16) at the end of a measurement path (24) ...
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WO/1995/012523A1 |
An ice and snow detector having a tubular duct (10) mounted on a stand (12) which can be fixed to the exterior of, for example, a helicopter. Air is drawn through the duct (10) in the direction of the arrow by means of a venturi arrangem...
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WO/1995/012131A1 |
A weather simulation system that generates and distributes weather data to simulation subsystems for the real time simulation of weather conditions, from three-dimensional real world data. A real world database (11) is accessed to obtain...
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WO/1995/006265A1 |
A geostrophic winds forecasting method (10) determines an atmospheric density (D) (14) and a Coriolis parameter (F) (16) at a given location. The atmospheric pressure is detected N times (20) at the location over a predetermined period o...
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WO/1995/004941A1 |
A method and system for tracking the position of at least one moving object, such as an airborne meteorological instrument (20) from a ground processing station by intercepting wideband spread spectrum signals transmitted from a pluralit...
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WO/1995/001549A1 |
Light is projected upon a road surface (LD) from a road surface lighting light source (11). Diffusedly reflected light from the road surface (LD) are received by photodetectors (31A and 31B) through a spatial filter, and the light recept...
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WO/1994/022022A2 |
An anemometer transducer wind set with no moving parts for determining both wind speed and wind direction having an omnidirectional wind speed resultant thermal anemometer transducer and a directional orthogonal anemometer transducer. Om...
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WO/1994/008247A1 |
A capacitive moisture sensor includes insulator means (22); capacitance means including a sensing capacitor having as plurality of spaced capacitive sensor conductors (14) mounted with the insulator means for exposure to the atmosphere; ...
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WO/1994/008233A1 |
An apparatus for identifying and measuring in real time substances overlying a surface comprises a plurality of electrodes, a temperature sensor, an electrode control system connected to the plurality of electrodes for defining an electr...
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WO/1994/006035A1 |
The snow sensor utilizes a single temperature sensor (10) and heating element (12) in thermal contact with the sensing surface (11). The signal from the temperature sensor (10) and the signal from the heating element (12) are input to a ...
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WO/1994/001649A1 |
An electrical rain sensor to be mounted on the outside of the main frame of an openable window, particularly a skylight, comprising a sensing element with two electrodes mounted opposite one another in an insulating holder, the distance ...
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WO/1993/019383A1 |
A system and method for the detection and measurement of atmospheric air movement irregularities such as wind velocity vector, clear air turbulence, aircraft induced vorteces and turbulence, by means of electromagnetic waves. An air volu...
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WO/1993/018418A1 |
A method is provided for determining the humidity and temperature of atmospheric air at selected distances along a field of view (99, 100) by passive IR spectrometry. An IR spectrometer (98) is provided. A plurality of IR power densities...
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WO/1993/012441A1 |
A weather surveillance apparatus utilizes a set of beams (1a, 1b; 2a, 2b; 3a, 3b) in an elevation angular sector (01; 02; 03) one beam being offset from the other by a predetermined offset angle. Radar signal returns in each beam are pro...
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WO/1993/011594A1 |
An arrangement for discharge of electricity (11-20) or lightning in the atmosphere to prevent formation of space charges that would reduce the strength of electric fields therein by transmitting through a path in the atmosphere one or mo...
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WO/1992/022823A1 |
A solid state radar transmitter for use in airborne applications has a modular design which extends into the transmitter. The transmitter is formed of a plurality of power modules the number of which is selected based on the power requir...
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WO/1992/022830A1 |
The present invention is an airborne radar system which scans the flight path of an aircraft with two radar scans, an upper elevation scan pointing above local level and a lower elevation scan pointing below the glide slope. The radar re...
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WO/1992/020575A1 |
The invention provides an apparatus and method for detecting the presence of ice on a surface (20). The invention uses cameras (22) to allow ice detection over a large area instead of a single point. The detecting apparatus provides an i...
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