Rannoch Flight Tracking System Operational at Cincinnati's Lunken

Rannoch reports its multilateration flight tracking system is now operational at Cincinnati's Lunken Municipal Airport, along with a network of acoustic monitors to verify noise events.

The wide‑area flight tracking system, called AirScene, uses a combination of surveillance and communication sources, including automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS‑B) where available, which through multilateration techniques allows tracking all the way down to the airport surface, even when conventional radar sources are absent.

At Lunken, Rannoch created the tracking system by adding four additional AirScene remote sensors to the airport’s previous single-sensor that was being used for billing and auditing.

Rannoch also deployed a network of micro acoustic monitors around Lunken, which the airport will use in conjunction with AirScene to provide real‑time flight tracks correlated with noise events.  According to Rannoch, the monitors can accurately measure spectral noise ranging from conventional A‑weighted audio to low‑frequency vibration.  10-09-2004.