ENVISION is an ATM application-oriented research project which aims at making use of technical progress in CCTV cameras, LIDAR technology and image processing techniques, and at taking advantage of reduced equipment costs, to provide regional and local airports safe and affordable surface movements surveillance capabilities in support of A-SMGCS and A-CDM services.
CCTV
ClosedADS-B
Automatic DependentLIDAR
LightA-SMGCS
Advanced SurfaceA-CDM
The constant air traffic growth puts regional and local airports under pressure for increasing their capacity.
However, safety and efficiency gains allowed by the deployment of A-SMGCS systems currently remain out of most small to medium size platforms’ reach because of prohibitive infrastructure costs.
Due to the intrinsic attributes of current surveillance technologies and airport surface coverage constraints, airports are required to deploy complex and costly infrastructures involving multiple sensors of different kinds: ADS-B, MLAT, SMR.
In a stepwise approach, in two demonstration airports, the consortium will evaluate and demonstrate the operational, technical and economic feasibility of implementing CCTV and LIDAR technology in complement of ADS-B on the airport surface in providing identification and positioning data, which is an important step forward from the traditional MLAT and traditional SMR.
Additionally, the project will assess the benefits of using this technical solution to feed positioning data to A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making) information-sharing platform, updating airport milestones and providing a surveillance display to airport stakeholders.
For nearly 2 years, the ENVISION consortium has worked on the development and evaluation of a...
Read more...The ENVISION solution has successfully been deployed at Carcassonne-Salvaza LFMK/CCF Airport...
Read more...This video demonstrates the results achieved during Phase 1 of the project.The first phase was successfully...
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