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By Daniel Baxter |
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May 5, 2010 - Currently, controllers located at airport towers provide air traffic control (ATC) services for aircraft on the airport surface primarily by visual means (i.e., looking out the window). Searidge Technologies, provider of intelligent video solutions to air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and airports, announced its intelligent video platform IntelliDAR has been selected by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory for a Staffed NextGen Tower (SNT) surveillance research program, commissioned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The SNT concept provides air traffic services without the requirement for a direct out-the-window (OTW) view; instead controllers will rely primarily on surface surveillance systems to control aircraft. SNT may potentially prove to be an alternative to ATC tower construction/expansion. |
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One of the
challenges for the SNT concept is to compensate for the lack of the OTW
view currently provided by the airport tower. To address this, a
demonstration system will be part of the program and will include a
network of fixed cameras, installed at the The Searidge solution supports remote tower operations by providing enhanced situational awareness to air traffic controllers with real-time video for visual confirmation of targets, radar-like coverage of all non-cooperative targets and an out-the-window (OTW) view by using video from cameras deployed parallel to each other and "stitching" them together to provide a single panoramic view of an area.
"We are very
excited to be part of such an important project. It's a great
opportunity to showcase our intelligent video capabilities for remote
towers and to work with a world class organization like MIT", says Alex
Sauriol, vice president - ATM products, Searidge Technologies. |
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