Next generation of thales ADS-B ground stations - supporting the US Surveillance Broadcasting Services System Program

Author

Neufeldt, Holger

Author_Institution

Navig. & Airport Solutions, Thales Air Syst., Korntal

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Thales is delivering the ground station equipment for the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Surveillance Broadcast Services (SBS) Program which is part of the FAA Next Generation Air Traffic System (NGATS or NextGen). Demanded by the constraints and requirements laid out in the FAA essential and critical services specification, this new generation of automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) ground station equipment provides significantly higher performance and flexibility than its already successful predecessor AS680. This paper presents background, function, and performance of the new equipment generation.

Keywords

air traffic; broadcasting; ground support systems; surveillance; Next Generation Air Traffic System; Thales ADS-B ground station; US Federal Aviation Administration; US surveillance broadcasting services system program; automatic dependent surveillance broadcast; Aircraft; Airports; Broadcasting; Contracts; FAA; Navigation; Radar tracking; Satellite ground stations; Surveillance; Testing; ADS-B; FAA; NGATS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Communications - Enhanced Surveillance of Aircraft and Vehicles, 2008. TIWDC/ESAV 2008. Tyrrhenian International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Capri

Print_ISBN

978-88-903482-0-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TIWDC.2008.4649047

Filename

4649047