SENSIS TO DELIVER FUSION PROCESSOR FOR TIS-B RESEARCH AT FREDERICK MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, MDDEWITT, NY - February, 24, 2000 - Sensis Corporation has been awarded a contract from the Federal Aviation
Administration to deliver a Multi-Sensor Tracker fusion processor to integrate
target data from two terminal radars for Traffic Information Service-Broadcast
(TIS-B) Research by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). TIS-B
utilizes ground based radar to determine an aircraft's position and broadcasts
this information to other suitably equipped aircraft. Data from ASR-9 radars at
Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan National Airport will
be received via a Sensis System Interface Unit (SIU). The SIU is a highly
modular data format and protocol converter that supports a variety of
protocols, electrical standards and message formats. The Multi-Sensor
Tracker will fuse the data from the radar sources to create a unified,
accurate "best source" surveillance picture. The tracker will also integrate
positional information transmitted from ADS-B equipped aircraft with the radar
data which will demonstrate surveillance coverage and accuracy during the
transition to universal ADS-B equipage. Installation is
scheduled for June '00.
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