Riga's Airport to use Era's Wide-Area Multilateration and ADS-B

Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme (LGS) has selected Era to provide a wide-area surveillance system for the airspace surrounding the Riga International Airport.   In 2005, the airport selected Era to track aircraft, as well as vehicles, on the airport's surface.

Era's system will use its MSS sensors, which in a typical wide-area system would consist of five receiving stations, a CPS (central processing station), a combined IMT (interrogator and monitoring transponder), one or more terminals making up its RCMS (remote control and monitoring system), and a controller working position.

This Riga implementation will extend the airport's surveillance coverage out to a distance of at least 80 nautical miles, Era says, and will provide higher accuracy, greater update rates, and improved reliability when compared to conventional radar, not to mention what will be a "much lower initial cost" and "lower annual maintenance costs."  04-20-2007.

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