Saab Sensis, a subsidiary of Sweden-based security company Saab, has announced that its Wide Area Multilateration system has been selected by Lotte for monitoring flights operating near South Korea’s Lotte World Tower, which is being built near the Seoul Air Base.
Saab Sensis Multilateration system
WAM surveillance will be provided by Saab Sensis to air traffic controllers at Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). The WAM system features alerting and conflict detection capabilities and will observe flights operating in a perimeter of 10 to 15 nautical miles around the Lotte tower to improve the tower’s safety. The WAM system issues an alert to the traffic controllers when aircrafts operate very close to the tower.
The Lotte Program Director, Hwanghee Lee stated that the company worked in tandem with ROKAF to evaluate the best solution to address the surveillance issue around Seoul’s Lotte tower. The solution offered by Saab Sensis met the deployment timeframe and technical performance required for the challenging surveillance environment.
Multiple non-rotating sensors featured in the Saab Sensis multilateration solution triangulate the location of the aircraft based on its transponder signal, thus providing the ROKAF air traffic controllers with identification data and highly accurate positioning of the aircraft in all weather conditions. The WAM surveillance system has a higher update rate and superior positional accuracy than conventional radar systems, thus increasing the capacity, efficiency and safety of surface and airspace operations.
Saab Sensis has deployed its surveillance solution in 100 sites across the globe to provide enhanced safety, capacity, efficiency and cost saving. The Safety Logic conflict detection system developed by Saab Sensis has been deployed in 45 locations worldwide.