GPS-Squitter is a technology for surveillance of aircraft via broadcast of their GPS-determined positions to all listeners, using the Mode S data link. It can be used to provide traffic displays, on the ground for controllers and in the cockpit for pilots, and will enhance TCAS performance. It is compatible with the existing ground-based beacon interrogator radar system and is an evolutionary way to more from ground-based-radar surveillance to satellite-based surveillance. GPS-Squitter takes advantage of the substantial investment made by the U.S. in the powerful GPS position-determining system and has the potential to free the Federal Aviation Administration from having to continue maintaining a precise position-determining capability in ground-based radar. This would permit phasing out the ground-based secondary surveillance radar system over a period of 10 to 20 years and replacing it with much simpler ground stations, resulting in cost savings of hundreds of millions of dollars.


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    Title :

    Automatic dependent surveillance broadcast via GPS-Squitter: a major upgrade to the national airspace system


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Air Traffic Control Technologies ; 1995 ; Orlando,FL,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1995-06-12





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English