Sydney Airport to Use Sensis Wide Area Multilateration for Terminal Airspace Surveillance and Precision Approach MonitoringSensis WAM Enables Airservices to Supplement Existing Radar Coverage and Provide Precision Approach Monitoring
for Parallel Runway Operations
EAST SYRACUSE, NY – October 29, 2007 – Sensis Corporation today announced that Airservices Australia has selected the company to provide its Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) for terminal airspace surveillance and precision approach monitoring at Sydney Airport. Sensis WAM will provide air traffic controllers with highly accurate, reliable terminal airspace and precision approach surveillance, supporting operational growth at Australia’s busiest airport.
Sensis WAM will provide seamless surveillance of Mode A/C, Mode S and Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) equipped aircraft to support the delivery of air traffic services in the Sydney Terminal Maneuvering Area. It will also replace the existing E-Scan Precision Runway Monitor.
Sensis WAM – which leverages Sensis’ multilateration surveillance technology, MDS – uses multiple sensors to triangulate aircraft positions based on transponder signals and provides a one-second update rate. With the system, controllers receive highly accurate aircraft position and identification information. In addition to the enhanced accuracy and high update required for the parallel runway approach paths, the Sensis WAM system will provide 360 degree surveillance out to 60 nautical miles of the airport.
Sydney Airport’s conventional radar has ever increasing coverage limitations caused by obstructions from commercial development activities around the airport and the adjacent Port Botany container terminal. The new Sensis system, with its enhanced coverage, will assist with resolving those problems for the Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) part of the system.
“Sensis multilateration technology is a cost effective solution that easily scales from surface to terminal to en-route applications, enabling users to expand coverage as their needs expand,” said Tony Lo Brutto, Vice President and General Manager of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. “Airservices has demonstrated its commitment to implementing multilateration and ADS-B technology as a replacement to traditional radar sensors for approach and surface aircraft. We look forward to our growing partnership with Airservices in deploying future air traffic surveillance systems.”
Airservices is deploying Sensis products for multiple air traffic surveillance applications throughout Australia. Sensis WAM will provide air traffic surveillance across Tasmania while Sensis Advanced – Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS), a solution that provides surface management, is being deployed at Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney Airports.
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