Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems: Advanced Radar and Surface Sensors for Flight Safety and Air Traffic Management - Couverture rigide

Mahapatra, Pravas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0852969376 ISBN 13 : 9780852969373

Editeur : Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1998

Synopsis

The need to enhance the safety and efficiency of aviation systems has escalated with increasing aviation activity and competitiveness around the world. Weather, which is one of the principal factors affecting aviation performance, is acquiring ever more importance as aviation is poised to shift to futuristic paradigms such as free flight. Advanced systems and approaches to the surveillance of weather and the resultant generation of highly processed, detailed, accurate and reliable weather data, are becoming integral parts of support systems for navigation and air traffic management.

This accessible multidisciplinary book touches on all of the important scientific and technological aspects of the aviation weather surveillance problem. The emphasis is balanced between physical and system concepts, as well as description of state-of-the art and future devices and software.

Among the subjects covered are:

• wind shear and atmospheric turbulence
• surveillance system requirements
• Doppler weather radar
• polarimetric weather radars
• wind profilers
• radiometric satellite observation
• automated surveillance systems
• integrated aviation weather systems

Aviation weather surveillance systems should be of interest not only to personnel directly handling aviation meteorological functions, but also to pilots, air traffic controllers, airline managers, civil aviation system planners and regulators, accident investigators and indeed anyone with a serious interest in aviation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pravas R. Mahapatra is a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has an ME in aeronautical engineering and a PhD in radar systems. His research is focused on topics in aerospace and electronic systems. His experience includes significant periods of post-doctoral research in the US at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), California Institute of Technology and the University of Oklahoma. He has authored or coauthored over 100 papers, and was the recipient of the 1993 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0852969376
• ISBN 13: 9780852969373
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 479
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible