Airport surface detection equipment
An Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE) is a high resolution for a very specific purpose radar that covers the entire airport surface movements can indicate the planes. This is particularly useful when it is no longer possible to see from the tower (e.g. due to fog).
Key features
Key features are e.g. B .:
- a radome with a movable focus antenna
- a frequency-moving TWT transmitter
- and a digital scan converter .
Patents
A patent is pending for the airport surface detection equipment. It has the patent number 4213126 and was filed on December 13, 1979 by Hollandse Signalaalapparaten B.V.
It was invented by Willem Mulder, Dorotheus C. L. Vaessen and Nicolaas H. De Lange.
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- Patent information from Google
- Department of Transportation , The Budget for Fiscal Year 2006, Retrieved January 29, 2013