COST-EFFECTIVE SENSORS AT SMALLER AIRPORTS
This Solution was formerly part of PJ.14-04-03-W1
Composite surveillance solutions have the potential to lower implementation costs and deliver appropriate levels of performance to meet the needs of regional airports or remote tower environments. This solution aims to provide a surveillance service to increase situational awareness for the multi remote tower controller in a cost-effective way. It provides a basic surveillance service for a small to medium sized airport below the performance specified in ED-87D (A-SMGCS for complex airports) within a range of around 20 nautical miles by augmenting the performance of existing surveillance equipment.
This SESAR solution aims to enhance the video camera plot extraction used as a non-cooperative source for the tailored multi-remote tower surveillance layer, consisting of video and infrared cameras, multilateration (MLAT) and multi-sensor data fusion (MSDF). The multi-remote surveillance module enables the event generation for multi-remote tower centre (MRTC) operation. The solution enables enhanced control of a pan tilt zoom (PTZ) camera.
The multi-remote surveillance solution defines a set of requirements for the technical solution enabling surveillance for multiple remote tower control. These requirements address the electro-optical sensor, the non-rotating Mode-S ranging component as well as the data fusion component. All three components are closely connected with one another to establish a logical surveillance layer.
BENEFITS
Improved cost efficiency, through tailored performance surveillance enhancing operations on small and regional airports through ATCO situational awareness in general, without the need for full A-SMGCS system.
Enhanced safety, as it enables multi remote tower operations for small or regional fields that otherwise would not have had ATC Tower Control at all.
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