A visionary look at aviation surveillance systems

Author

Donohue, George

Author_Institution

Federal Aviation Adm., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

10

Issue

10

fYear

1995

fDate

10/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

14

Abstract

The FAA´s future aviation surveillance systems fall into four categories: Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) will be used in the oceanic environment; ADS-Broadcast (ADS-B) will be used in the domestic en route environment; ADS-B will be used with a secondary radar backup in the terminal area; and ADS-B will be used with primary radar backup within the Airport Surface Traffic Automation (ASTA) system on the airport´s surface environment. Two other systems introduced in this paper are Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI) and Traffic Advisory and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS). All these systems will use navigational signals emitted by the Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation of satellites

Keywords

Global Positioning System; aircraft displays; aircraft landing guidance; surveillance; ADS; ADS-B; ADS-Broadcast; ASTA; CDTI; TCAS; airport surface traffic automation; automatic dependent surveillance; aviation surveillance systems; cockpit display of traffic information; domestic en route environment; global positioning system; navigational signals; oceanic environment; primary radar backup; secondary radar backup; surface environment; traffic advisory and collision avoidance system; Airports; Automation; Collision avoidance; Displays; FAA; Global Positioning System; Radar; Satellite navigation systems; Sea surface; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.469793

Filename

469793