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Description

ASMACS is designed to support and automate air traffic control and coordination procedures in terminal areas and en route, contributing to flight safety and according to the latest international standards.

ASMACS treats multi-radar and weather information, flight plan processing, ATC communications and presents real-time processed information to air traffic controllers, enabling air traffic management in their area of responsibility.

Automatic functions support repetitive flight plans automatic insertion, control area hand-over and issues flight path conflicts warnings.

User graphic interface uses the latest hardware and software visualization technology available (2K x 2K high resolution monitors) allowing aerial situation visualization (with or without flight, control parameters and system control menus). All visualized information is coded in colors in order to indicate caution situations or aircraft tracking status and respective flight plans. The radar consoles can be configured to use one, two or three high-resolution monitors and the user interface is possible via a standard keyboard, ball or mouse. The user can select the visualization combination for each console’s monitor, with easiness for image zooming and off-centering.

Air traffic controllers can select, at any time, radar data combination to be processed and visualized. They can also select raw radar data (optional).

Different kinds of data and different rotation periods are processed, 2D or 3D. All radar data received and air traffic controller commands are recorded. Recorder data can be later used for visualization, training and/or performance evaluation of air traffic controller sector operational position.

ASMACS is a distributed system, which can be configured to use only one console/module or as many as necessary in a network. Each console processes all information, but each one has its own functions defined by dynamic operation modes, through a supervision function. Any console in the network is capable of executing supervision functions, eliminating the need of a centralized computer.

This system provides a significant number of functionalities in a single software product, completely integrated in a hardware configuration, utilizing the latest technology available, supporting continuous operation and preventing loss of vital data.

Due to its flexibility, distributed and modular design, ASMACS has an inherent growth potential to accommodate new mission planning and training requirements.

ASMACS with ADS and CPDLC functionalities (CNS/ATM capabilities) empowers air traffic controllers for better traffic handling. FANS equipped aircraft flying on “en route” report their position via ADS and are able to communicate with the appropriate controller via CPDLC.

ASMACS has been fully operational in Brazil’s regions of highest air traffic density (e.g. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) for more than fifteen years, and was recently deployed throughout Brazil’s entire 3.5 million square miles of air space as part of the SIVAM project. The system has also been customized and deployed for military applications.

Features

The System uses multi-radar input, flight plan data, cloud information, ATC communications, and displays the processed information to controllers in real time. The high-definition graphical user interface allows controllers to interact with the information including functions such as repetitive flight plan insertion, flight control transfer and conflict detection alerting. The System offers a complete suite of functional options:

• Multi-radar processing (2D or 3D). The System integrates data generated from multiple manufacturers’ systems, airborne systems (C2I) and adjacent control centers. Operators may choose to view any radar combination, and can also select raw radar image analog simulation
  
• Situation Data Display and Conflict detection alerting
  
• Flight plan data processing and display with automatic repetitive flight insertion
  
• Automatic flight control transfer
  
• Electronic flight strips
  
• Local Record and Playback  functions
• Complete revisualization functionality for incident investigation and operator training
  
• Situation Data Display, including the ability to superimpose Cloud displays and weather maps
  
• Zooming, Panning and PIP (Picture in Picture), and video map options
  
• Integration and display of aeronautical (NOTAM) and meteorological (SIGMET, STF and others) information, AMHS compatible
• Multilateration, ADS-B and ADS-C
• Operator based strip editing

Platform

The System is very responsive to customers’ requirements for scalability and modularity. It operates on a variety of UNIX and PC hardware configurations, and has been designed to be fully compliant with the latest international standards. The fault-tolerant, distributed processing architecture ensures 24 hour operation with automatic failure detection and data back-up.

The graphical user interface is rendered using X Windows thereby enabling color-coded visualization of the Situation Data Displays (with or without clouds), and Motif-type hierarchical menus. Each console supports up to three high-resolution monitors (2048 X 2048 pixels), keyboards and mice/track-ball.

The scalable, modular architecture of the system means that it can be configured with a single or multiple consoles on the same network. Every console processes all the information but each one has its own control functions. This feature allows for greater flexibility because supervisor functions can be assigned to any of the available consoles, also eliminating the need for a central computer.

New FEATURES Available in 2009

Strip Configuration Tool

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