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Novel Integrity Concept for CAT III Precision Approaches and Taxiing: Extended GBAS (E-GBAS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2011

Wolfgang Schuster  and
Washington Ochieng
Wolfgang Schuster*
Affiliation:
(Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London)
Washington Ochieng
Affiliation:
(Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London)
*
(Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

Future air navigation envisages increased use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) together with advanced communications and surveillance technologies to facilitate the required increase in capacity, efficiency and safety without adversely impacting the environment. The full benefit of GNSS is expected from its ability to support en-route to en-route or gate-to-gate air navigation. This presents challenges particularly for the phases of flight with stringent required navigation performance. Significant work has so far been devoted to the phases of flight up to CAT I. However, more work is required for CAT III precision landing (with an accuracy requirement at the metre level) and taxiing (with an accuracy requirement at sub-metre level) and both with very high integrity and continuity requirements. The main limitation in using GBAS for CAT III landings is the potential decorrelation of the measurement errors between the GBAS ground station (GGS) and the user. The threats in this respect are the atmospheric anomalies. Periods of strong solar activity can cause large local spatial and temporal gradients in the delays induced on the GNSS signals by the ionosphere. The local nature of the effects results in significant decorrelation between GGS measurements and the user. Therefore, a reliable ground based ionospheric anomaly monitoring scheme is required to guarantee integrity.

This paper critically reviews state-of-the-art monitors, identifies their limitations and addresses them by proposing a high-performance monitoring scheme for the ionosphere. Preliminary analyses suggest that the proposed scheme has the potential to enable GNSS to meet the navigation requirements for CAT III and taxiing.

Keywords

CAT IIIE-GBAS
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 695 - 710
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2011

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