US 12,106,674 B1
Terrestrial acoustic sensor array
Jay B. Cleckler, Long Beach, CA (US); Jesse L. Klang, Colorado Springs, CO (US); Sheida Danesh, Westminister, CA (US); Mark E. Walker, Fullerton, CA (US); James A. Wes, Diamond Bar, CA (US); and Robert Francis Dircks, Westminster, CA (US)
Assigned to SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC., Cypress, CA (US)
Filed by SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC., Cypress, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/101,429.
Application 18/101,429 is a continuation of application No. 16/570,950, filed on Sep. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,594,142.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/778,713, filed on Dec. 12, 2018.
Int. Cl. G08G 5/04 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01); G01V 1/00 (2006.01); G01W 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G01S 3/80 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 5/04 (2013.01) [B64C 39/02 (2013.01); G01S 19/01 (2013.01); G01V 1/001 (2013.01); G01W 1/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); H04R 1/406 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); B64U 2201/104 (2023.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terrestrial acoustic sensor system for detecting and preventing airspace collision with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the terrestrial acoustic sensor system comprising:
one or more ground-based acoustic sensor installations, each of the one or more acoustic sensor installations including a sub-array of microphones, at least one of the one or more acoustic sensor installations including one or more weather station instruments selected from the group consisting of a thermometer, a barometer, a wind vane, a wind sock, an anemometer, a hygrometer, a pyranometer, a rain gauge, and a precipitation sensor;
one or more processors for detecting an aircraft based on sensor data collected from the microphones of at least one of the one or more acoustic sensor installations; and
a network link for transmitting a signal to a control system of the UAV based on the detection of the aircraft and further based on a measurement of the one or more weather station instruments.