Airport to airport microwave video link

Author

Ruiz, B. Ian

Author_Institution

Alaska Univ., Fairbanks, AK, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

501

Lastpage

522

Abstract

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently closing control towers at small Alaskan airports and replacing the personnel with telemetered meteorological instrumentation. Pilots are concerned that there are no “eyes” at these remote airports. We propose a low cost alternative, namely the addition of a live video link. As a representative example, we designed a 13 GHz microwave communications link allowing the, Airstrip in Homer, Alaska to be viewed by a control tower in Seldovia. The various components of this project were divided up into responsibility for the Fresnel zone and look angle calculations, the verifying of various manufacturer specifications, and assisting with the selection of the chosen microwave path and responsibility for the site drawings and parts specifications, the microwave system configuration, a cost analysis, and a few link analysis calculations

Keywords

airports; microwave links; visual communication; 13 GHz; Federal Aviation Administration; Fresnel zone; look angle calculations; microwave communications link; microwave path; microwave video link; remote airports; Airports; Communication system control; Costs; FAA; Fresnel reflection; Instruments; Meteorology; Microwave communication; Personnel; Poles and towers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wescon/97. Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

ISSN

1095-791X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4303-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WESCON.1997.632378

Filename

632378