SATELLITE TERMINAL WARNING SYSTEM
Assignee
Filed
Apr 18, 1977
Granted
Nov 4, 1997
Location
CA US
Abstract
A satellite surveillance system for providing an independent warning of attacking vehicles is realized by means of a light source detecting system that identifies discrete non-stellar light sources, locates their coordinate positions and monitors their intensity changes to determine vehicle time of arrival. All discrete light sources that exceed a given intensity level within the field of view of interest are detected and recorded in a computer memory. A catalog of stellar light sources of that intensity level and greater within the field of view is recorded in a second computer memory. The data in the computer memories are correlated by a micro-processor to distinguish between stellar and non-stellar sources. In a preferred embodiment, light source detection and monitoring is accomplished by means of a Digicon tube in combination with an array of charged coupled device detector elements.
Source: Google Patents
35 USC §181 Secrecy Order
Imposed
Jan 28, 1982
Rescinded
Nov 27, 1996
Duration
14 years, 10 months
Inventor
- 1SIDNEY W. KASH
Record Details
- Patent number
- US 5684577
- Application
- 05788729
- Aerospace match
- Yes
- Dataset source
- 35 USC §181 SO records
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