Surveillance aircraft perform long-duration missions (>eight hours) that include detection and identification of objects on the ground, the water, or in the air. They have surveillance systems that require large amounts of cooling power (typically...
International air traffic has contributed to the global spread of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. In early 2023, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been implemented at airports as a surveillance tool to detect emerging variants at short notice. Thi...
Maritime nations around the world proactively engage in preparedness, response, and recovery activities related to marine oil spills. In addition to an individual nation’s capabilities, there are a number of response organizations that are acti...
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is the future of aviation surveillance and traffic control, allowing different aircraft types to exchange information periodically. Despite this protocol’s advantages, it is vulnerable to flood...
To ensure safe, secure, and efficient advanced air mobility (AAM) operations, an AAM surveillance network is needed to detect and track AAM traffic. Additionally, a cloud-based surveillance data collection, monitoring, and distribution center is need...
Frequent aviation safety accidents of civil aircraft misses and crashes lead to an urgent need for flight safety assurance. Due to long-time flights over different backgrounds, accompanied by the changes in flight altitude and speed, it is difficult...
Aviation is a vital modern transportation sector connecting millions of passengers globally. Sustainable aviation development holds substantial community benefits, necessitating effective management of its environmental impacts. This paper addresses...
The rapid growth of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) presents significant integration and safety challenges for the National Airspace System (NAS), often relying on disconnected Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanne...
The airworthiness certification of aerospace cyber-physical systems traditionally relies on the probabilistic safety assessment as a standard engineering methodology to quantify the potential risks associated with faults in system components. This pa...
Collision risk modelling has a long history in the aviation industry, with mature models currently utilised for the strategic planning of airspace sectors and air routes. However, the progressive introduction of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and ot...
With the significant potential of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs) extending throughout various fields and industries, their proliferation raises concerns regarding potential risks within the national airspace system (NAS). To enhance the safe and e...
Estimating the environmental impact of aviation, in terms of noise and emissions, requires accurate knowledge of flight parameters such as departure/arrival procedure, aircraft mass, thrust and flap settings. However, these parameters are not availab...
This paper presents the concept of a passive bistatic radar (PBR) system using existing phased array radar (PAR) as the source of illumination. Different from PBR based on common civil illuminators of opportunity, we develop an experimental PBR syste...
Micro unmanned aircraft systems (micro UAS)-related technical research is important because micro UAS has the advantage of being able to perform missions remotely. When an omnidirectional camera is mounted, it captures all surrounding areas of the mi...
Background: Most new SARS-CoV-2 epidemics in France occurred following the importation from abroad of emerging viral variants. Currently, the risk of new variants being imported is controlled based on a negative screening test (PCR or antigenic) and...
As the aviation industry has entered a critical period of development, the demand for Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) technology is becoming increasingly urgent. Real-time detection of aviation wind field information and the early...
Air Traffic Services play a crucial role in the safety, security, and efficiency of air transportation. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) performance-based surveillance concept requires monitoring the actual performance of the surv...
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has decided to adopt Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) as the 21st century standard for navigation. Accordingly, ICAO members have provided an impetus to...
Mode S surveillance allows air traffic controllers to interrogate certain information from aircraft, such as airspeeds, turn parameters, target altitudes, and meteorological conditions. However, not all aircraft have enabled the same capabilities. Be...
The introduction of various deep neural network architectures has greatly advanced aircraft pose estimation using high-resolution images. However, realistic airport surface monitors typically take low-resolution (LR) images, and the results of the ai...
This paper discusses a precise relative navigation and separation assurance system based on the exchange of Global Navigation Satellite (GNSS) measurements via new message types for Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Light (ADS-L). A measurement-...
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a surveillance system used in Air Traffic Control. With this system, the aircraft transmits their own information (identity, position, velocity, etc.) to any equipped listener for surveillance sco...
To support integration of unmanned aerial systems into the airspace, the low altitude airspace needs to be characterized. Identifying the frequency of different aircraft types, such as rotorcraft or fixed wing single engine, given criteria such as al...
Most aircraft in the world are tracked by various surveillance radar systems. Currently there is no legal requirement for light aircraft to be fitted with a transponder; however, this does not mean light aircraft should not be tracked. By adding a ch...
Global navigation satellite systems technology is at the core of modern air traffic navigation. Aircraft use it to estimate their position, while air navigation service providers rely on services such as automatic dependent surveillance broadcast whi...
Solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles are fixed-wing aircraft designed to operate solely on solar power. Their defining feature is an advanced power system that uses solar cells to absorb sunlight during the day and convert it into electrical energy...
With the rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicle technology and its increasing application across various fields, current airspace resources are insufficient for unmanned aerial vehicles’ needs. This paper, taking Zigong General Aviation A...
Runway throughput at high-density European airports is governed not only by the aircraft interarrival separation on final approach but also by runway occupancy time (ROT). As reduction of Separation Minima (SM) becomes operationally and technically f...
Increasing demands on a highly efficient air traffic management system go hand in hand with increasing requirements for predicting the aircraft’s future position. In this context, the airport collaborative decision-making framework provides a s...
LIDAR is an atmospheric sounding instrument based on the use of high-power lasers. The use of these lasers involves fulfilling obligations with respect to air safety. In this article, we present a low-cost air traffic surveillance solution integrated...
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In Europe, the air-borne accidental introduction of exotic mosquito species (EMS) has been demonstrated using mosquito surveillance schemes at Schiphol International Airport (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Based upon these findings and given the increa...
An aircraft go-around is a costly yet safety critical procedure. While there are many reasons to decide that a go-around is necessary, at Hamburg Finkenwerder airport (EDHI) there is a rather peculiar one: vessel traffic crossing the approach path. A...
Air Traffic Management (ATM) has become complicated mainly due to the increase and variety of input information from Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) systems as well as the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) requiring U...
In airport ground-traffic surveillance systems, the detection of an aircraft and its head (AIH) is an important task in aircraft trajectory judgment. However, accurately detecting an AIH in high-resolution optical remote sensing images is a challengi...
As technologies advance and applications for uncrewed aircraft increase, the capability to conduct automated air-to-air refueling becomes increasingly important. This paper provides a review of required sensors to enable automated air-to-air refuelin...
With the advantages of long-range flight and high payload capacity, large fixed-wing UAVs are often used in anti-terrorism missions, disaster surveillance, and emergency supply delivery. In the existing research, there is little research on the 3D mo...
Air traffic simulations serve as common practice to evaluate different concepts and methods for air transportation studies. The aircraft performance model is a key element that supports these simulation-based studies. It is also an important componen...
The usage of large private and business jets, from those owned by Elon Musk to Kylie Jenner and Bernard Arnault, has recently attracted considerable attention in many countries. Enabled by open and crowdsourced aircraft tracking systems based on the...
Integration of Uncrewed Aircraft into unsegregated airspace requires robust and objective risk assessment in order to prevent exposure of existing airspace users to additional risk. A probabilistic Mid-Air Collision risk model is developed based on s...
Using data from an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADSB) aggregator, a custom data-mining program was developed to identify all manned aircraft below 500′ AGL within 5 miles of the KSNA airport on six specific days in 2018–201...
Detect and Avoid (DAA) systems are complex communication and locational technologies comprising multiple independent components. DAA technologies support communications between ground-based and space-based operations with aircraft. Both manned and un...
Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) are increasingly becoming relevant actors that are flying through the airspace and will gain much more importance in the future. In order to allow for their safe integration with manned conventional traffic in...
A safe integration of drones into the airspace is fundamental to unblock the potential of drone applications. U-space is the drone traffic management solution for Europe, intended to handle a large number of drones in the airspace, especially at very...
As a consequence of measures imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, anthropogenic emissions worldwide decreased markedly in impacted sectors, including the aviation industry. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of the pandemic on aircr...
Digital multi-beam synthesis technology is generally used in the on-orbit satellite-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) system. However, the probability of successfully detecting aircraft with uneven surface distribution is...
The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) operates both EMB-145 and EMB-135 LR versions of Embraer aircraft, used in surveillance and civil missions respectively. These aircraft are equipped with the same version of Rolls Royce, AE 3007 turbofan engine. This stud...
Modern-day aircraft are flying computer networks, vulnerable to ground station flooding, ghost aircraft injection or flooding, aircraft disappearance, virtual trajectory modifications or false alarm attacks, and aircraft spoofing. This work lays out...
An analysis of the performance of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data received from the Grand Forks, North Dakota International Airport was carried out in this study. The purpose was to understand the vulnerabilities of the univer...
This work analyzes the severity and risk associated with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) message drop-out in detect and avoid (DAA) function of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Performance assessment of the universal access transce...
Accurate estimation of aircraft operations, such as takeoffs and landings, is critical for airport planning and resource allocation, yet it remains particularly challenging at non-towered airports, where no dedicated surveillance infrastructure exist...
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