1994•Unpublished venueRequires access
New Approaches to Aircraft Surveillance in Civil Aviation
J J Fee, Carmine F. Primeggia, Theodore R. Simpson, Paul M Ebert, Douglas E. Campbell
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Abstract
For many years aircraft surveillance in the U.S. Air Traf-
fic Control (ATC) System has been based upon the use of
radar beacon interrogators augmented by search radars. In
areas where there is no radar coverage, such as the vast
stretches of U.S.-managed airspace over the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, a procedural-based form of air traffic
management is used that relies upon each aircraft’s con-
formance to a pre-approved flight plan.
The recent introduction of the Global Positioning System
(GPS) into civil aviation operations plus the upcoming use
of an aeronautical two-way digital data link will provide
a means of reporting aircraft position in U.S.-managed
oceanic airspace with an accuracy that can equal that of
radar. This technique, referred to as Automatic Dependent
Surveillance or ADS, will soon be used to expand the
scope of the FAA’s surveillance coverage, and may
possibly change the role of the ATC System itself.
The concepts discussed in this paper are the opinions of
the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official
views of the FAA.