New Delhi: ADS-B, a satellite-based navigation system to track and guide flights over vast oceanic area, has been implemented to meet the challenge of a burgeoning air traffic in the region around the Indian coastline, a top AAI official said today.
"We have been consistently upgrading the systems and procedures. We have accomplished implementation of ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata flight information regions with overlapping coverage," Airports Authority of India's Air Navigation System chief V Somasundaram said here.
ADS-B is a cooperative surveillance technology in which an aircraft determines its position via satellite navigation and periodically broadcasts it, enabling it to be tracked. The technology was implemented months after the Malaysian flight MH-370 went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board.
Somasundaram was speaking at a seminar on Indian air traffic management, organised by Air Traffic Controllers Guild (India), which was inaugurated by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju.
20/10/14 Outlook India
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"We have been consistently upgrading the systems and procedures. We have accomplished implementation of ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast) in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata flight information regions with overlapping coverage," Airports Authority of India's Air Navigation System chief V Somasundaram said here.
ADS-B is a cooperative surveillance technology in which an aircraft determines its position via satellite navigation and periodically broadcasts it, enabling it to be tracked. The technology was implemented months after the Malaysian flight MH-370 went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board.
Somasundaram was speaking at a seminar on Indian air traffic management, organised by Air Traffic Controllers Guild (India), which was inaugurated by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju.
20/10/14 Outlook India
