Information from a surveillance sensor can be integrated into a Remote Tower System. Surveillance sensors provide position and altitude information that can be used to supplement optical sensor tracking, and a cooperative surveillance sensor further provides aircraft identification that can be correlated with flight information. In the Remote Tower research system developed by the Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI), integration with a multilateral sensor allows integrated flight information to be displayed in a labelLabel (tag) associated with each aircraft, and surveillance position is combined with optical sensor information to assist automatic object-following by a PTZPTZ camera function, which improves its performance particularly in low visibility conditions. To integrate surveillance information with optical target tracking accurately, calibrationCalibration or correction techniques such as georeferencingGeoreferencing (3D-2D mapping) are required. This chapter gives details on the following specific topics: (1) correlation of optically detected and tracked objects with surveillance sensor targets and labellingLabel, (2) PTZPTZobject followingObject following, and (3) mapping between two-dimensional screen coordinates and real-world three-dimensional PTZPTZ coordinates.


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    Title :

    Integration of (Surveillance) Multilateration Sensor Data into a Remote Tower System


    Additional title:

    Research Topics in Aerospace


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2022-07-02


    Size :

    30 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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