Exelis launches UAS situational awareness tool
Exelis has launched Symphony RangeVue, an airspace situational awareness tool specifically designed for unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations in the US, the company announced on 23 April.
Symphony RangeVue delivers real-time Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) surveillance data, flexible background maps and weather information to UAS operators and test range personnel. It also gives access to historical surveillance information through a web-hosted platform.
This new product can be used as a command centre decision-support and post-event analysis tool, or as a sense-and-avoid addition to UAS ground control stations in the field. It has geo-fencing tools that alert operators when a UAS approaches airspace boundaries or when other aircraft are in the vicinity.
Symphony RangeVue combines a visualisation engine with Exelis NextGen surveillance data, including all of the FAA's surveillance systems: automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast; en route radar; terminal radar; airport surface detection equipment-X; airport surface surveillance capability; and wide area multilateration. It also integrates locally deployed surveillance assets to deliver hyper-local situational awareness.
Ed Sayadian, vice president of civil and aerospace solutions, Exelis, said: 'For the first time, UAS operators and test range personnel will have the same situational awareness currently available to general aviation pilots through traffic information broadcast services. This capability is available without having to install avionics surveillance equipment on the UAS aircraft.
'Leveraging the FAA’s own surveillance data combined with advanced sense-and-avoid alerting capabilities, Symphony RangeVue will significantly increase the safety of UAS operations.'
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