Portable Calibration System for Air Traffic Control Surveillance Radar

Author

Zhu, Chen ; Shi, Xiaofeng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

5-6 June 2010

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

80

Abstract

In this article, we design a portable calibration system for air traffic control surveillance radar. This system realizes the automatic flight calibration for Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR), and also can provide a simple flight calibration capability for any aircraft without standard equipments onboard. On the basis of high-precision GPS technology, this system is composed of a portable dual-frequency & dual-antenna GPS receiver, a portable PC and a software system by our own R&D. By analyzing the position accuracy of GPS and dual-antenna, the portable calibration system has the ability of providing automatically conversion arithmetic of coordinate system between WGS-84 and radar station center. A ground dynamic test for this system has been finished, and an actual flight data processing mission for an airport has been accomplished.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; air traffic control; calibration; multifrequency antennas; radar computing; receiving antennas; search radar; GPS technology; WGS-84; actual flight data processing mission; air traffic control surveillance radar; automatic flight calibration; portable calibration system; portable dual-antenna GPS receiver; portable dual-frequency GPS receiver; radar station center; secondary surveillance radar; Air traffic control; Airborne radar; Aircraft; Arithmetic; Calibration; Data processing; Global Positioning System; Software systems; Surveillance; System testing; Air Traffic Control Surveillance Radar; Calibration; Flight Calibration; GPS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering (CCIE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4026-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCIE.2010.138

Filename

5491979