Lyon Airport to Get Thales ADS-B Vehicle Tracking System

The technical department of DSNA, the French ANSP (air navigation services provider), has awarded Thales a contract to implement a cooperative ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) system to track surface vehicles on Lyon-Saint Exupéry's airport.

The contract calls for Thales to deliver its ADS-B AS-680 ground stations and its Mosquito ADS-B vehicle transmitters, and integrate them with the airport's existing A-SMGCS (advanced - surface movement guidance and control system) based on Thales' STREAMS A-SMGCS.

The DSNA deployed a similar configuration at Toulouse as part of the European EMMA (environmental) project, which showed ADS-B with a 1090 datalink to be operationally suitable for this purpose.

Thales says the system will be delivered this year and will be ready to cooperatively track appropriately equipped aircraft and other vehicles.

Vehicle tracking systems based on Thales' Mosquito and AS-680 are already - or about to be - in operation at Astana, Kazakhstan, and South Korea's Incheon, Seoul.  02-21-2007.

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