A Mobile Aircraft Tracking System That Supports Unmanned Aircraft Operations
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چکیده
The integration of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace system requires new methods of ensuring collision avoidance. For unmanned aircraft a capability to ‘detect-and-avoid’ is required to replace the traditional ‘see-andavoid’ performed by pilots. The initial results from testing a Mobile Aircraft Tracking System (MATS) show that this ground-based radar system can track a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a Cessna 172 general aviation aircraft, and a Boeing 777 jet airliner. A co-located ADS-B receiver has allowed the correspondence between a radar track and an ADS-B track to be demonstrated. The MATS was tested using a specially equipped aircraft that flew predetermined flight plans. The results of this testing show that the MATS is able to provide situational awareness information about local airspace users to a UAS pilot and, as such, support unmanned aircraft operations.
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