Multi Sensor Data Fusion Architectures for Air Traffic Control Applications
Olivier Baud, Gomord Pierre, Honor Nicolas, Ostorero Loc, Taupin Olivier, Tubery Philippe · 2009
Nowadays, the development of advanced ATM systems is realised by the implementation of advanced means of communication, navigation and surveillance for air traffic control (CNS/ATM). The definition of a new set of surveillance standards has allowed the emergence of a postradar infrastructure based on data-link technology. The integration of this new technology into gate-to-gate architectures has notably the following purposes: ? fluxing air traffic which is growing continuously, ? increasing safety related to aircraft operations, ? reducing global costs (fuel cost is increasing quickly and this seems to be a long-term tendancy), and ? reducing radio-radiation and improving the ecological situation. In this context, sensor data processing will continue to play its key rule and its software as well as its hardware architecture is expected to evolve in the meantime. The performance requirements of such a sub-system (accuracy, latency, continuity and integrity) is expected to become more and more strict in the incoming years. This issue will be discussed in a future chapter.