Sensis Deploys 13th ASDE-X

Sensis’s Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X) is now operational at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport,  the 13th to be commissioned through the FAA’s ASDE-X program that will deploy systems to a total of 35 airports nationwide.
ASDE-X fuses ground surveillance data from a number of sources to provide air traffic controllers with real-time, highly accurate position and location information of all aircraft and vehicles on the airport surface.  By combining surface movement radar, transponder multilateration and Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B), ASDE-X provides seamless, redundant coverage in all weather conditions.  The system also features an advanced conflict detection and alerting technology, Safety Logic, which uses complex algorithms to discern and alert controllers of potential aircraft or vehicle incursions on the runway. In addition to ASDE-X, Sensis is deploying its Multistatic Dependent Surveillance (MDS) multilateration at Detroit Metro for Precision Runway Monitoring – Alternative (PRM-A).  MDS will provide surveillance for simultaneous parallel approaches to runways 4L/22R, 4R/22L and 3R/21L. The FAA contracted with Sensis to provide MDS for PRM-A at Detroit Metro based on a successful trial at Lambert – St. Louis International Airport and a subsequent cost/benefit analysis.  Sensis PRM-A will be the only certified multilateration system that allows simultaneous approaches to closely spaced parallel runways.  The PRM-A system is scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2009.