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Sydney Airport to Use Sensis Wide Area Multilateration for Terminal Airspace Surveillance and Precision Approach Monitoring
Sensis WAM Enables Airservices to Supplement Existing Radar Coverage and Provide Precision Approach Monitoring for Parallel Runw
Oct. 29, 2007 12:30 PM
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensis Corporation today announced that Airservices Australia has selected the company to provide its Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) for terminal airspace surveillance and precision approach monitoring at Sydney Airport. Sensis WAM will provide air traffic controllers with highly accurate, reliable terminal airspace and precision approach surveillance, supporting operational growth at Australia's busiest airport.
Sensis WAM will provide seamless surveillance of Mode A/C, Mode S and Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft to support the delivery of air traffic services in the Sydney Terminal Maneuvering Area. It will also replace the existing E-Scan Precision Runway Monitor.
Sensis WAM - which leverages Sensis' multilateration surveillance technology, MDS - uses multiple sensors to triangulate aircraft positions based on transponder signals and provides a one-second update rate. With the system, controllers receive highly accurate aircraft position and identification information. In addition to the enhanced accuracy and high update required for the parallel runway approach paths, the Sensis WAM system will provide 360 degree surveillance out to 60 nautical miles of the airport.
Sydney Airport's conventional radar has ever increasing coverage limitations caused by obstructions from commercial development activities around the airport and the adjacent Port Botany container terminal. The new Sensis system, with its enhanced coverage, will assist with resolving those problems for the Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) part of the system.
"Sensis multilateration technology is a cost effective solution that easily scales from surface to terminal to en-route applications, enabling users to expand coverage as their needs expand," said Tony Lo Brutto, Vice President and General Manager of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. "Airservices has demonstrated its commitment to implementing multilateration and ADS-B technology as a replacement to traditional radar sensors for approach and surface aircraft. We look forward to our growing partnership with Airservices in deploying future air traffic surveillance systems."
Airservices is deploying Sensis products for multiple air traffic surveillance applications throughout Australia. Sensis WAM will provide air traffic surveillance across Tasmania while Sensis Advanced - Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS), a solution that provides surface management, is being deployed at Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney Airports.
ABOUT SENSIS CORPORATION
Sensis Corporation provides sensors, information technology, and simulation and modeling to the world's air navigation service providers, civil aviation authorities, airports, airlines and militaries. Sensis Corporation solutions are deployed around the world. For more information regarding Sensis Corporation, visit http://www.sensis.com/.
ABOUT AIRSERVICES AUSTRALIA
Airservices Australia is a Government owned corporation responsible for the safe and efficient management of air traffic across 11 per cent of the world's air space. Services include air traffic control, airspace management, aeronautical information, radar communications, radio navigation aids, aviation maintenance and engineering, environmental management and aviation rescue and firefighting. For more information regarding Airservices Australia, visit http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/ .
Sensis Corporation
CONTACT: Beth Larson of Sensis Corporation, +1-315-234-3729,
beth.larson@sensis.com
Web site: http://www.sensis.com/
http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/
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