The Diplomat
Indra will implement in South Korea the first 3D civil aviation radar to enter service in Asia, the company said in a statement.
The 3D radar will reinforce air safety on one of the busiest and most complex to manage routes in the world: the A593 airway, which connects Japan with China and South Korea and is the gateway for flights from North America.
In the statement, Indra said that this long-range 3D radar will be installed on the Korean island of Jeju. With a range of more than 220 miles, the system will reinforce surveillance to the south from Jeju, reaching the Atoti point where Korean controllers hand over flights to their Chinese colleagues.
According to Indra, the system is characterised by its “reliability and precision”, which makes it suitable for routes with a high volume of traffic or in cities with several airports or wind farms, which can generate interference with conventional radar.
The system will operate in combination with a fully digitised secondary radar and an ADS-B surveillance system, which automatically collects information emitted by aircraft in flight.
The Spanish firm indicates that the fusion of all the data provided by Indra’s sensors will offer a much more precise vision and will multiply security.
Moreover, it points out that three-dimensional radars are the only ones capable of determining the altitude at which an aircraft is flying completely autonomously, unlike traditional radars, which interrogate the aircraft to collect this information.
“It is as if multiple radars were working in coordination to determine the position in longitude, latitude and elevation of each aircraft,” explains Indra.
This is the third radar that Indra implements in Jeju Island, after having installed a secondary radar and later a primary 2D approach radar.
With this contract, the technology company continues to grow in Asia and South Korea, where in 2015 it won a major contract to modernise the navigation, surveillance and traffic management systems at Incheon airport in Seoul.
