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Radar Application On Air Traffic Control

Radar plays an essential role in air traffic control by allowing controllers to monitor and guide aircraft. Controllers use primary and secondary radar to track thousands of aircraft safely through congested airspace on approach to and departure from airports. Radar surveillance provides air traffic controllers with real-time position information to sequence and space aircraft, issue instructions to pilots, and prevent collisions both in the air and on the ground. Radar is a critical tool that enables air traffic control to manage high volumes of air traffic efficiently and safely on a daily basis.

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Radar Application On Air Traffic Control

Radar plays an essential role in air traffic control by allowing controllers to monitor and guide aircraft. Controllers use primary and secondary radar to track thousands of aircraft safely through congested airspace on approach to and departure from airports. Radar surveillance provides air traffic controllers with real-time position information to sequence and space aircraft, issue instructions to pilots, and prevent collisions both in the air and on the ground. Radar is a critical tool that enables air traffic control to manage high volumes of air traffic efficiently and safely on a daily basis.

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Radar application on Air Traffic Control

Presented By :- A. K. M . Tohidur Rahman

Student ID: 090918


4th Year, 2nd Term ECE Discipline Khulna University

Outline

Introduction History Application

Introduction
Air Traffic Control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non controlled airspace. Thousands of passengers board airplanes every day and travel from one destination to another. With so much congestion in the skies, one may wonder how air traffic control manages all of this traffic. One of the ways this traffic management is handled is through the use of radar.

History
Radio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) is a method of detection used by Air Traffic Control (ATC) to detect and identify aircraft. Radar systems have been in use since the early 1930's when the first aircraft was detected at a U.S. Naval Station. In 1943 U.S Air Force air traffic controllers began routinely using Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) equipment to help military pilots land safely in poor visibility.

History (Cont.)
This radar used a fan beam (narrow in azimuth and tall in elevation) that detected planes out to about 20 miles from the airport and up to altitudes of about 3000 meters (10,000 feet). Accordingly, the coverage of air traffic radar surveillance grew throughout the 1960s as longrange radars were deployed along important air routes. In the early 1960s the U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a national standard for air traffic control interrogators and transponders

History (Cont.)
In the 1980s the FAA developed an airborne collision avoidance system based on air-to-air surveillance of the same air traffic control transponders used for surveillance from the ground. Radar surveillance to assure safety of aircraft on the airport surface is difficult because of reflections from the ground and from airport structures and service vehicles Although several generations of airport surface detection radars have been deployed since the 1990s, and surface surveillance performance has improved, reflections continue to cause unreliable

How does radar help air traffic controllers?


Radar are able to see where all the planes are. Its can guide the pilots of the planes and tell them where to land and when to Its can tell them when the air is really busy, and when there is no one in the air.

Application on Air Traffic control


There are two types of radar in use by Air Traffic Control throughout the world today. They are : PRIMARY Surveillance Radar (PRS) SECONDARY Surveillance Radar (SSR)

Application on Air Traffic control

Used to safely controlling air traffic in the vicinity of airports( Air Surveillance Radar, or ASR) and en route from one airport to another (Air Route Surveillance Radar, or ARSR) as well as groundvehicular traffic and taxing aircraft on the ground Monitoring of airport surface operations such as movement of aircraft and ground vehicles on the airport surface Used to Controllers with position and weather conditions in the vicinity of civilian airfields and other information on aircraft flying within their area of responsibility

Figure-a: Overall view of air traffic control

Application on Air Traffic control


GCA (ground controlled approach) or PAR (precision approach radar) provides an operator with high accuracy aircraft position information in both the vertical and horizontal. The high resolution radar is used at large airports to monitor aircraft and ground vehicles on the runways, taxiways and ramps. Uses radar to track planes both on the ground and in the air.

Application on Air Traffic control

Its used for detection of turbulence and wind shear. In flight collision avoidance Ground collision avoidance Its also used for traffic management-processing and comparing the flight plans, distributing flight plans to allow controllers to keep track of intended routes and anticipate potential conflicts, and ensuring the smooth and efficient flow of traffic in order to minimize costly congestion and delays

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