Evaluating ASR-9 Radar Azimuth Error Models Through Analysis of Targets of Opportunity Data

Abstract

Over the next decade the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is planning a wide ranging transformation of the national air transportation system, known as NextGen. With NextGen the FAA will move away from single sensor ground based surveillance systems towards a satellite based surveillance system known as Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) [1]. Currently the FAA Order 7110.65 detailing the surveillance requirements to support separation services assumes that surveillance is provided by single sensor radar technology [2]. To extend separation services to other surveillance systems, their performance must be proven equivalent to or better than the existing radar system performance. This comparison is often conducted using radar error models to characterize radar performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 06, 2011
Accession Number
ADA569702

Entities

People

  • Colin Mayer
  • Panos Tzanos

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Transportation
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Altitude
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Errors
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Ground Based
  • Measurement
  • Normal Distribution
  • Probability
  • Radar
  • Sense And Avoid Systems
  • Standards
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects