Autonomous Approach Landing Capability Improves Situational Awareness for Air Mobility Platforms.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. has developed a multi-sensor autonomous approach landing capability (AALC AALC American Association of Lutheran Churches AALC Amphibious Assault Landing Craft AALC Autonomous Approach Landing Capability AALC Aa Ab Laut Chalen (Hindi movie) AALC Animal Agriculture Liaison Committee ) for air mobility platforms that increases aircrew situational awareness Situation awareness or situational awareness [1] (SA) is the mental representation and understanding of objects, events, people, system states, interactions, environmental conditions, and other situation-specific factors affecting human performance in in low- and no-visibility conditions. The BAE Systems AALC solution fuses millimeter-wave radar and an optical sensor --either infrared or low-light television -- processing those inputs to render the best available image on a head-up, head down, or helmet-mounted display. The system, drawing on BAE Systems' pioneering technology in the weather-penetrating capabilities of the 94-GHz imaging radar Traditional radar sends directional pulses of electromagnetic energy and detects the presence, position and motion of an object (such as an aircraft) by analyzing the portion of the energy reflected from the object back to the radar station. technology, is designed to permit aircraft landings in zero-ceiling/zero-visibility (0/0) conditions such as fog, dust, smoke, snow, and rain. It provides visual situational awareness of the runway environment, enhances obstacle avoidance, and minimizes pilot spatial disorientation caused by lack of visual perspective. AALC is fully autonomous, placing all sensors aboard the aircraft with no need for ground-based landing aids -- significantly improving flexibility in mission planning and execution. "Our solution offers a multi-spectral sensor approach that, when combined with flight symbology sym·bol·o·gy n. 1. The study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism. 2. The use of symbols. symbology 1. the study and interpretation of symbols. Also called symbolism. for aircraft control, provides our fighting forces unprecedented operational capability," said Dutch Neilson, director of BAE Systems' Advanced Systems integrated product team. In 2004, the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL Noun 1. AFRL - a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces Air Force Research Laboratory U. S. ) awarded BAE Systems a contract to provide a platform-independent, integrated systems solution to meet Air Mobility Command autonomous approach landing requirements for the Defense Transportation System. Under that contract, BAE Systems is supplying an integrated system comprising a 94-GHz imaging radar fused with optical sensors, new digital light engine head up displays, and a multi-spectral radome. The company currently is performing the systems integration phase of the 2004 AFRL contract. BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development, delivery, and support of advanced defense and aerospace systems in the air, on land, at sea and in space. BAE Systems North America is one of America's foremost national security, aerospace, and information systems companies. |
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