An approach to instrument qualified visual range

Benoît Courtade; Jordan Bonnet; Chris Woodruff; Josiah Larson; Andrew Giles; Nikhil Sonde; C. J. Moore; David Schimon; David Money Harris; Duane Pond; Scott Way

doi:10.1117/12.785465

15 April 2008 An approach to instrument qualified visual range

Benoît Courtade, Jordan Bonnet, Chris Woodruff, Josiah Larson, Andrew Giles, Nikhil Sonde, C. J. Moore, David Schimon, David Money Harris, Duane Pond, Scott Way

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Proceedings Volume 6957, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2008; 69570Q (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.785465
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a system that calculates aircraft visual range with instrumentation alone. A unique message is encoded using modified binary phase shift keying and continuously flashed at high speed by ALSF-II runway approach lights. The message is sampled at 400 frames per second by an aircraft borne high-speed camera. The encoding is designed to avoid visible flicker and minimize frame rate. Instrument qualified visual range is identified as the largest distance at which the aircraft system can acquire and verify the correct, runway-specific signal. Scaled testing indicates that if the system were implemented on one full ALSF-II fixture, instrument qualified range could be established at 5 miles in clear weather conditions.

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Benoît Courtade, Jordan Bonnet, Chris Woodruff, Josiah Larson, Andrew Giles, Nikhil Sonde, C. J. Moore, David Schimon, David Money Harris, Duane Pond, and Scott Way "An approach to instrument qualified visual range", Proc. SPIE 6957, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2008, 69570Q (15 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.785465

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