Enhanced Oceanic Situational Awareness for the North Atlantic Corridor

Air traffic control (ATC) mandated, aircraft separations over the oceans, impose a limitation of traffic capacity for a given corridor. The separations result from a lack of acceptable situational awareness over oceans where radar position updates are not available. This study considers the use of A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Greenfield, Israel, Welch, Bryan
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2004
Subjects:
Aircraft Communications and Navigation
Corridor The
Corridor, The
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20050051686
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Summary:Air traffic control (ATC) mandated, aircraft separations over the oceans, impose a limitation of traffic capacity for a given corridor. The separations result from a lack of acceptable situational awareness over oceans where radar position updates are not available. This study considers the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) data transmitted over a commercial satellite communications system as an approach to provide ATC with the needed situational awareness and thusly allow for reduced aircraft separations. Traffic loading from a specific day are used as a benchmark against which to compare several approaches for coordinating data transmissions from aircraft to the satellites.

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