Air Traffic Control (ATC) Facility Hardware Interfaces for Discrete Address Beacon System (DABS).

Abstract

The Discrete Address Beacon System (DABS) is an evolutionary upgrading of the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS). DABS provides improved surveillance and an integral ground-air-ground digital data link for transmission of Air Traffic Control (ATC) communications messages between ATC and DABS-equipped aircraft. Surveillance data and data link services will be provided via land lines to ATC facilities. The DABS/ATC interface consists of two digital links to each facility: a two-way communications link and a one-way surveillance link from DABS to ATC. This document describes the ATC facility (terminal and en route) hardware required for interfacing with DABS surveillance and communications links. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA085241

Entities

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Aircrafts
  • Beacons
  • Communication Channels
  • Computers
  • Data Links
  • Data Processing
  • Data Rate
  • Data Transmission
  • Detectors
  • Discrete Address Beacon Systems
  • Front End Processors
  • Governments
  • Radar
  • Radar Beacons
  • Radar Receivers
  • Transportation

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Radio communications and signal processing.