Oceanic Situational Awareness over the North Atlantic Corridor

By: Administration (Nasa), National Aeronaut

Air traffic control (ATC) mandated, aircraft separations over the oceans impose a limitation on traffic capacity for a given corridor, given the projected traffic growth over the oceanic domain. The separations result from a lack of acceptable situational awareness over oceans where radar position updates are not available. This study considers the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) data transmitted over a commercial satellite communications system as an approach to provide ATC with the needed situational awareness and thusly allow for reduced aircraft separations. This study uses Federal Aviation Administration data from a single day for the North Atlantic Corridor to analyze traffic loading to be used as a benchmark against which to compare several approaches for coordinating data transmissions from the aircraft to the satellites. Welch, Bryan and Greenfield, Israel Glenn Research Center NASA/TM-2005-213397, E-15004 WBS 22-184-10-07 AIR NAVIGATION; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION; TRACKING (POSITION); SURVEILLANCE; DATA TRANSMISSION; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; IRIDIUM NETWORK

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08F6TVWFM
• ISBN13: 9798672472614
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"