The FAA has identified the Airport Surface Detection Equipment as a radar system that aids air traffic controllers in low visibility conditions to detect surface radar targets and sequence aircraft movement on active runways. Though 35 major U.S. airports will have an ASDE-3 by the year 2000, its high cost precludes its use at hundreds of smaller airports; for them, low-cost COTS radar ('ASDE-X') shows promise as a controllers' aid in monitoring surface traffic and as a second sensor input to counteract shadowing, blanking and multipath problems. The FAA tasked the Volpe Center to evaluate Raytheon marine's ASDE-X. The Phase I evaluation was made with Raytheon's Model ARPA M3450/18CPX-19, a COTS radar with options added to adapt performance to the airport environment. This report details the characteristics, installation, and evaluation of this system at Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport (MKE).
Low-Cost ASDE Evaluation Report: Raytheon Marine (Phase 1) Radar at MKE (ARPA M3450/18CPX-19). Volume 1
1996
204 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Transportation , Transportation Safety , Radiofrequency Detection , Airport surface detection equipment , Installing , Ground based control , Surveillance radar , Systems management , Facilities management , Checkout , Radar transmitters , Display devices , Air traffic control , Milwaukee(Wisconsin) , General Mitchell International Airport
ASDE-3 - a new airport surface detection equipment surveillance radar
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