Patent attributes
An aircraft detection system identifies aircraft based on identifying information obtained from two or more different detection channels using a distributed set of user equipment, network equipment, broadcast receivers, aircraft control cloud system, and/or flight tracking equipment with different sensors. The different sensors may detect aircraft that communicate via different wireless networks, network connectivity, message broadcasts, visual features, and sound in addition to or instead traditional radar and satellite detection. Accordingly, the aircraft detection system may perform multi-channel remote identification to accelerate the identification of aircraft and may use the two or more detection channels as alternate means with which to identify aircraft that may go undetected with one or more of the detection channels.
