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ADS-B: A New Approach to Air Traffic
Thursday, September 3, 2009
11:00 a.m. – 12 noon ET
Image to right: A test of ADS-B in 2009 using the simulation facilities at NASA's Ames Research Center. Credit: NASA
Today, radar-based technology is used to track air traffic in the U.S.
air transportation system. That's the way it's been done for nearly 60
years.
But times have changed. Increased air traffic requires a new system-wide
technology that can support the volume of operations projected for the
21st century. This new satellite-based technology is "Automatic
Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast," or ADS-B.
ADS-B depends primarily on Global Positioning Satellite data and offers
new capabilities including:
- the ability of airplanes to transmit position reports to each other and not just to air traffic controllers;
- radar-like services in mountainous terrain and other areas currently without radar coverage;
- increased arrivals and landings at smaller airports by pilots able to monitor each other's approaches; and
- improvements to existing radar coverage around airports that provide ground controllers more accurate data more quickly to reduce the number of false conflict alerts.
NASA was a member of the government and industry team led by the Federal
Aviation Administration that conducted an ADS-B field test several years
ago with United Parcel Service, UPS, at their hub in Louisville, Ky.
This work earned the team the 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy.
Join host Beth Dickey, NASA's Dr. Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator
for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and a panel of
industry and government experts who'll talk about the UPS field test,
NASA's contribution to the implementation of ADS-B, the significant
improvements it can make to air transportation safety and efficiency,
and the challenges of phasing it into a complex system that never
sleeps.
Guests:
- Bryan Barmore, Research Scientist, Crew Systems and Aviation Operations Branch, NASA's Langley Research Center
- Robert Hilb, Manager (retired), Advanced Flight Systems Department, United Parcel Service
- Robert Novia, Operations Manager, En Route and Oceanic Services Unit, Federal Aviation Administration
- Nancy Smith, Research Scientist, Human Systems Integration Division, NASA's Ames Research Center
+ Animations and Slides Shown During Broadcast
Background Technical Information
+ An Operational Concept and Evaluation of Airline Based En Route Sequencing and Spacing (PDF)
+ Effects of Automated Arrival Management, Airborne Spacing, Controller Tools, and Data Link (PDF)
+ Air/Ground Simulation of Trajectory-Ori (PDF)
+ Air/Ground Simulation of Trajectory-Oriented Operations with Limited Delegation (PDF)
+ The Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL) at NASA Ames Research Center (PDF)
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