The ATCRBS Mode of DABS

Abstract

The Discrete Address Beacon System (DABS) has been designed to be an evolutionary replacement of the present third generation Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS). Although the ATCRBS returns processed by DABS will be identical to those currently being employed, the DABS processing system will not merely mimic the present system. Instead, it has been designed to surpass current performance levels even while reducing the number of interrogations transmitted per scan. This will be made possible by utilizing the availability of several new features introduced by the DABS sensor. In particular, the employment of a monopulse antenna will permit both more accurate azimuth estimation with fewer replies per scan and improved decoding performance when garble is present.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 1977
Accession Number
ADA038543

Entities

People

  • J. L. Gertz

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Traffic
  • Aircrafts
  • Coding
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Decoding
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Discrete Address Beacon Systems
  • False Alarms
  • Geometry
  • Hash Tables
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • Radar
  • Radar Beacons
  • Radar Tracking
  • Reliability

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management