Runway incursion reduction program (RIRP) surveillance system, NASA/FAA Atlanta demonstration

Author

Capezzuto, Vincent ; Olster, David ; Curr, Michael ; Pendergast, Steven L.

Author_Institution

Fed. Aviation Adm., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

31 Oct-7 Nov 1998

Abstract

Discusses a prototype Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) originally designed to receive ASDE-3 and ARTS-IIIA data. These two data sources were applied to safety logic to provide air traffic controllers with conflict alert advisories on arrival and surface targets. The prototype AMASS was enhanced by software and hardware changes to perform multiple sensor data fusion, which provided a complete track and identification picture of the airport movement area. This surface surveillance system, combined with enhanced data links and displays, demonstrated the capability to maintain situational awareness in the tower and cockpit. This paper describes the performance of this surveillance system, as well as the impact of the system to current FAA airport services

Keywords

air traffic control; airports; sensor fusion; surveillance; AMASS; ARTS-IIIA; ASDE-3; NASA/FAA Atlanta demonstration; air traffic control; airport movement area safety system; arrival targets; conflict alert advisories; data links; multiple sensor data fusion; runway incursion reduction program; situational awareness; surface surveillance system; surface targets; surveillance system; Air safety; Air traffic control; Airports; Hardware; Logic; Prototypes; Software performance; Software prototyping; Surveillance; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1998. Proceedings., 17th DASC. The AIAA/IEEE/SAE

Conference_Location

Bellevue, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5086-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1998.739820

Filename

739820