Era to Provide Santiago with ADS-B and Multilateration Surveillance

Spain's air navigation service provider, AENA (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea), has selected Era to provide a surveillance system that combines ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) and multilateration technology to track aircraft and other vehicles on the surface of Santiago de Compostela Airport.

To track aircraft on the surface of Santiago, Era will install its MSS, which uses multilateration techniques to measure the time difference of arriving signals of aircraft Mode A, C or S transponders to determine their location and identification.  Besides multilateration, MSS is also able to decode standardized ADS-B signals and can be configured as a stand-alone network of redundant ADS-B ground stations.

In addition, Era will provide Santiago with its Squid ADS-B transponders that can be easily mounted on ground vehicles to broadcast their position to ensure that ground controllers have a complete picture of all surface activity.  To advance this capability even further, Squid can provide essential data regarding these vehicles to an airport's A-SMGCS (advanced surface movement and guidance control system).

Squid uses a unique 1090 MHz Mode S spontaneous squitter with a default address that can be adjusted if desired.  Era says the system will work seamlessly with existing ADS-B and multilateration surveillance systems, or those from other vendors.

This is Era's fifth such surveillance deployment in Spain.  Similar systems have been installed in Asturias and Palma de Mallorca and are currently being installed in Tenerife and Madrid Barajas.  05-18-2007.

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