Sensis Surface Surveillance System Providing Safe, Efficient Movement of Aircraft and Vehicles at New Airport in BangkokWorld’s Most Field Proven Multilateration System Operational at Suvarnabhumi International Airport
EAST SYRACUSE, NY – September 28, 2006 – Sensis Corporation announced that its Multistatic Dependent Surveillance (MDS) System is operational at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, which officially opened today. The MDS system provides air traffic controllers with complete situational awareness of aircraft and vehicle movements on the runways, taxiways, and gateways. Further, Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai), the air navigation service provider for Thailand, is deploying 30 of Sensis’ ADS-B vehicle locator units (VeeLo) at the airport.
“The flexibility of Sensis MDS is critical for a new airport such as Suvarnabhumi,” said Marc Viggiano, president of Sensis’ Air Traffic Systems division. “The distributed sensor architecture addresses the airport’s current surveillance requirements and easily expands to grow with the airport.”
Sensis is partnering with Thales ATM to provide MDS to Suvarnabhumi. MDS uses low-maintenance, non-rotating sensors to detect and track the movement of aircraft and vehicles based on their transponder signals. The system provides precision comparable to GPS, a higher update rate than traditional airport surveillance radar, and consistent surveillance performance regardless of weather conditions. Further, through its compatibility with ADS-B, multilateration provides a bridge to new technologies.
Sensis MDS is the world’s most field-proven multilateration system, commissioned by more air navigation service providers than any other system. In addition to Suvarnabhumi, Sensis MDS is operational or being installed for surface surveillance at nine major European and Asian airports. The system is a key component of Sensis A-SMGCS in New Delhi, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney and at 35 U.S. airports for the ASDE-X program.
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