Title: Digital weather radar including target severity analysis capability

Abstract: A digital weather radar system having a mode that clears the display of all clutter and lighter precipitation to reveal or positively present only the contoured areas, i.e., the severe "cores" or "hard spots." Data representative of the searched space is stored at least temporarily in a digital memory. In the preferred embodiment, a controllable decoder operates on this data according to the particular decoder state selected, the decoder output is D/A converted, and the resultant analog signal is used to intensity modulate a cathode ray tube (CRT).

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Inventors: Hodge, Richard M. (Marion, IA, US)

Application Number: 780942
Filing Date: 1977-03-24
Publication_date: 1978-05-30
Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation (El Segundo, CA)
Primary Class(es): 342/26 342/159, 342/176
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US Patent Ref:

3149332	Sep, 1964	Kocher	343/5.
3447153	May, 1969	Maguire	343/5.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Tubbesing, T.H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Blackwood; Terry M., Crawford; Robert J., Humphries; L. Lee