Independent surveillance broadcast — ADS-B receivers with DOA estimation

Author

Reck, C. ; Reuther, M.S. ; Jasch, A. ; Schmidt, L.-P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of High Freq. Technol., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

222

Abstract

On the one hand air traffic control (ATC) institutions consider to use ADS-B for its low cost and simplicity of ground station hardware. Aircraft positions transmitted via ADS-B are on the other hand in some cases error prone. In the proposed approach, direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is used to verify ADS-B airborne positions. The potential positioning error of ADS-B is thereby evaluated by comparing DOA estimates to DOA calculated from ADS-B references. To proof the accuracy of the applied DOA estimation sensor, an additional measurement campaign using a dedicated measurement aircraft has been conducted.

Keywords

air traffic control; direction-of-arrival estimation; radio broadcasting; radio receivers; surveillance; ADS-B airborne positions; ADS-B receivers; ATC; DOA estimation sensor; air traffic control; aircraft positions; automatic dependent surveillance broadcast receiver; dedicated measurement aircraft; direction of arrival estimation; ground station hardware; independent surveillance broadcast; Aircraft; Arrays; Direction of arrival estimation; Estimation; Receivers; Reliability; Transponders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Communications - Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles (TIWDC/ESAV), 2011 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Capri

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9841-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-903482-3-5

Type

conf

Filename

6060992