BAE SYSTEMS' ClearFlite(R) Software Wins Industry Award for Excellence in Air Traffic Safety.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- 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. received an industry award for its contributions to air traffic safety at the 16th annual ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered Maastricht Exhibition and Conference in February. Six awards are presented each year at ATC Maastricht, an annual conference for the air traffic control and management industry, to recognize contributions to air traffic management safety and capacity. BAE Systems' ClearFlite software was nominated for the award by David Rider of Jane's Airport Review Jane's Airport Review (part of Jane's Information Group) is recognised by the airport and air traffic control industries as the source for authoritative reporting on global market developments. . ClearFlite is a digital mapping Digitizing geographic information for a geographic information system (GIS). tool developed for the aviation industry to help operators identify and collect vertical obstructions in and around airfields. Available in BAE Systems' SOCET SET(R) software package, ClearFlite uses images acquired from aircraft or satellites along with other SOCET SET functionality to help operators define obstructions more efficiently, with a higher degree of accuracy. "We have used ClearFlite for many years in all of our DoD and commercial airport mapping programs," said Dejan Damjanovic, program manager for GeoEye(TM), the world's largest commercial remote sensing company. "For a single solution that supports mapping of terrain, obstacles, and airport features, nothing beats ClearFlite." BAE Systems developed ClearFlite in response to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Ron Brown Airfield Initiative, created after a fatal plane crash in 1996 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, that killed U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald Brown and 33 other passengers and crew. The accident was attributed to poor weather conditions, a lack of knowledge of the airfield environment, and an off-course approach. About BAE SYSTEMS BAE Systems is the premier transatlantic defense and aerospace company delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions and customer support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . With more than 100,000 employees worldwide, BAE Systems sales exceeded GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 15.4 billion (U.S. $28 billion) in 2005. |
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