Surveillance Radar System Limitations and the Advent of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast system for Aircraft Monitoring

Abdulrazaq Abdulaziz, Abdulmalik Shehu Yaro, Ashraf Adamu Ahmad, Surajo Namadi

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Abstract: Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) direct and control aircraft within its flight information region (FIR) using surveillance systems. To carry out such duty effectively and avoid air traffic collusion, accurate information about each aircraft within the FIR is required from the deployed surveillance systems. Surveillance radar is the conventional surveillance system used by the ANSP but has several operational limitations limiting its ability to support future global traffic demands. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) is considered to be the Next Generation (NextGen) surveillance system introduced by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to address the limitations of the surveillance radar. In this paper, the limitations of the surveillance radar system to support the ANSP in various operational environment is presented and the theoretical justifications for the use of the ADS-B system to overcome the surveillance radar system is provided.

Keywords: Surveillance radar, ADS-B, Air traffic collusion, Limitations


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