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  2. Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast - Wikipedia

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    Conceptual of the ADS-B system, illustrating radio links between aircraft, ground station and satellite. Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) is an aviation surveillance technology and form of electronic conspicuity in which an aircraft determines its position via satellite navigation or other sensors and periodically broadcasts its position and other related data, enabling it ...

  3. Airport surveillance and broadcast systems - Wikipedia

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    The data that ASDE-X uses comes from a surface movement radar located on the airport traffic control tower or remote tower, multilateration sensors, ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) sensors, terminal radars, the terminal automation system, and from aircraft transponders. By fusing the data from these sources, ASDE-X is able to ...

  4. Automatic identification system - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Although technically and operationally distinct, the ADS-B system is analogous to AIS and performs a similar function for aircraft. Information provided by AIS equipment, such as unique identification, position , course , and speed, can be displayed on a screen or an electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS).

  5. Traffic information service – broadcast - Wikipedia

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    Traffic information service – broadcast (TIS–B) is an aviation information service that allows pilots to see aircraft that are not emitting ADS-B data but have a basic transponder. As aircraft are discovered by primary radar and respond with encoded altitude information, this information is broadcast over ADS-B.

  6. Aerial photographic and satellite image interpretation

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    The principles of capturing vertical photographs are shown in Figure 2. [3] [4] Two major axes which originate from the camera lens are included. [3] One is the vertical axis which is always at 90° to the study area. [3] Another one is the camera axis which changes with the angle of the camera. [3]

  7. Air traffic control radar beacon system - Wikipedia

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    An ATC ground station consists of two radar systems and their associated support components. The most prominent component is the PSR. It is also referred to as skin paint radar because it shows not synthetic or alpha-numeric target symbols, but bright (or colored) blips or areas on the radar screen produced by the RF energy reflections from the target's "skin."

  8. Secondary surveillance radar - Wikipedia

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    Secondary surveillance radar antenna (flat rectangle, top) mounted on an ASR-9 primary airport surveillance radar antenna (curved rectangle, bottom).. The need to be able to identify aircraft more easily and reliably led to another wartime radar development, the Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system, which had been created as a means of positively identifying friendly aircraft from unknowns.

  9. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...