Ways to Create the Radio-Optical Airspace and Surface Control System for Dispatch Services of Regional Airports

Abstract

Various countries today are actively seeking concept of the future complex equipment to provide information support for the control and dispatch services of regional airports and small aircraft aerodromes. This is due to the general trend towards the air traffic intensification, especially that of small aircrafts, as well for economic reasons to reduce the cost of info-dispatching system of regional airports compared with the large airports. Radars for different-purpose are the most universal and all-weather information sensors for aerodrome control services.For regional airports where air traffic is low, the use of information and dispatching systems based on radars, air-field surveillance radars, and approach radars is unreasonably expensive. For the last few years, optoelectronic information systems for info-dispatching systems of regional airports have been developing. When using the optoelectronic information systems at the regional aerodromes in our country there are problems of ensuring the full operation of the airport systems in adverse weather conditions (snow, rain, fog) and a lack of the independent control of the aircraft flight in the airport control zone.Development of new technologies in radar enabled us to design a highly informative radarand-optical complex to accept the challenges of the all-weather information sensor in control and dispatching system of regional airports. This complex, for the first time in the aerodrome radars, uses two branches of the ultra-wideband signal technology together, namely: very short pulse radar (VSPR) technology and that of the wideband inter-pulse signals and integration with optoelectronic systems. Integration of passive optical-electronic and radar channels allowed us to raise the accuracy of determining the angular coordinates at small ranges, where they are most important.However, since so far there were no complexes, such as “D-RLS”, the existing regulatory documents do not reflect their functions and capabilities and, therefore, there is a need to revise existing, or introduce new regulatory documents to ensure air traffic control in regional aerodromes.

Keywords

• air navigation
• dispatch service
• opto-electronic systems
• RLS
• ultra-wideband signals