Oregon Deploys ADS-B Infrastructure

Sensis Corp., Syracuse, N.Y., said the state of Oregon will deploy ground-based Universal Access Transceivers (UAT) at six airports, providing real-time graphical and textual traffic and weather data to general aviation aircraft via automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B). Airports that will receive the technology under the state’s “ConnectOregon” initiative are: Eastern Oregon Regional Airport; Baker City Municipal Airport; Burns Municipal Airport; Roberts Field Airport; North Bend Municipal Airport; and Grant County Regional Airport/Ogilvie Field. When paired with coverage provided by recent FAA deployments at three other Oregon airports—McNary Field, Mahlon Sweet Field and Rogue Valley International—the ADS-B ground infrastructure will broadcast traffic and weather data throughout the state. ConnectOregon is a $100 million program to invest in air, rail, marine and transit infrastructure. “These deployments mark the beginning of our transformation to the next generation of air traffic surveillance,” said Martin Andersen, ConnectOregon program manager for the Oregon Department of Transportation. Sensis supplied ADS-B transceivers to the FAA as part of the Capstone program in Alaska and the Future Surveillance program on the East Coast, Arizona and North Dakota. The company also fielded the first operational ADS-B transceivers for both the Mode S Extended Squitter and UAT data links in Australia in 2004 and Alaska in 2005, respectively.