Название: Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems: Advanced radar and surface sensors for flight safety and air traffic management
Автор: Pravas Mahapatra
Издательство: The Institution of Electrical Engineers
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 391
Размер: 19,58 МБ
Язык: English
The need to enhance the safety and efficiency of aviation systems has escalated with increasing aviation activity and competitiveness around the world. Weather, which is one of the principal factors affecting aviation performance, is acquiring ever more importance as aviation is poised to shift to futuristic paradigms such as free flight. Advanced systems and approaches to the surveillance of weather and the resultant generation of highly processed, detailed, accurate and reliable weather data, are becoming integral parts of support systems for navigation and air traffic management.
This accessible multidisciplinary book touches on all of the important scientific and technological aspects of the aviation weather surveillance problem. The emphasis is balanced between physical and system concepts, as well as description of state-of-the art and future devices and software.
Among the subjects covered are:
wind shear and atmospheric turbulence
surveillance system requirements
Doppler weather radar
polarimetric weather radars
wind profilers
radiometric satellite observation
automated surveillance systems
integrated aviation weather systems
Aviation weather surveillance systems should be of interest not only to personnel directly handling aviation meteorological functions, but also to pilots, air traffic controllers, airline managers, civil aviation system planners and regulators, accident investigators and indeed anyone with a serious interest in aviation.