Era Systems has been awarded a contract by ANS CR, the Czech Air Navigation Service Provider, to deploy a wide area multilateration system in Brno, Czech Republic. Era’s solution, also capable of decoding ADS-B signals, will provide surveillance coverage out to 80 nautical miles from the Brno airport.  Era’s system in Brno will be the third wide area multilateration system installed by ANS CR, following systems deployed in Ostrava and Prague, and will be the final system needed to provide complete nationwide coverage. “It is our full intention to interconnect all three wide area multilateration systems early in 2010 to create the world’s first nationwide wide area multilateration capability,” said ANS CR’s Ivan Uhlir.  Multilateration is unique in that it can decode both traditional transponder signals as well as ADS-B transmissions, and when compared to conventional secondary radar, provides much higher position accuracy, faster update rates, better coverage and improved reliability.