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Airport Safety Technology R&D

Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Detection Technology & NextGen Airport Research. Airport Safety Technology R&D. 2008 Eastern Region Airport Conference, Hershey, PA. Jim Patterson. Tuesday March 18, 2008. Introduction. FAA’s Airport Safety Technology R&D SubTeam

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Airport Safety Technology R&D

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  1. Foreign Object Debris (FOD) Detection Technology & NextGen Airport Research Airport Safety Technology R&D 2008 Eastern Region Airport Conference, Hershey, PA Jim Patterson Tuesday March 18, 2008

  2. Introduction FAA’s Airport Safety Technology R&D SubTeam • Part of the Airport Technology R&D Team located at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ • Combined Workforce of 24 Federal and Contractor Personnel • Offices reside at the FAA’s National Airport Pavement Test Facility

  3. The FAA Technical Center

  4. Airport Technology R&D Branch (Team) Airport Pavement R&D Section (Subteam) Airport Safety Technology R&D Section (Subteam) Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting Wildlife Surface Traction Visual Guidance Operation of NLA Airport Design Airport Safety R&D

  5. Discussion Today: • FOD Detection Technology Update • NextGen Airport Technology Research

  6. Automated FOD DetectionWhy is the FAA Interested? “It has become clearer that this was a unique accident caused by a one-off chance of a piece of metal lying on the runway“.     -Concorde crash preliminary report

  7. Automated FOD Detection FOD Detection Concept: Could avian based radar systems be used to detect FOD? Could FOD be automatically detected? Could airport operator be alerted quickly? Can we prevent another Concorde incident?

  8. Automated FOD DetectionFAA Goal Develop performance standards for Automated FOD Detection Systems. Publish Technical Note documenting research. Develop FAA Advisory Circular specifically for FOD Detection Systems. Enable civil airports opportunity to apply for Federal funding to procure systems.

  9. QinetiQ – Tarsier Radar – Providence, RI (PVD) Millimeter Wave Radar Mounted on Rigid Towers Stratech – iFerret – Chicago O’Hare (ORD) High Resolution Camera Mounted on Rigid Towers X-Sight – FODetect – Boston Logan (BOS) High Resolution Camera and Millimeter Wave Radar Mounted on Airport Lighting Fixtures Trex Enterprises – FOD Finder – Chicago Midway (MDW) Millimeter Wave Radar and Infrared Cameras Mounted on roof of Airport Vehicle Automated FOD DetectionAvailable Technologies:

  10. Detection Capability Testing

  11. Detection Capability Testing

  12. Automated FOD Detection QinetiQ – Tarsier Radar Providence, RI

  13. FOD Found at PVD!

  14. Stratech

  15. Stratech

  16. Stratech

  17. Stratech

  18. Stratech

  19. XSight

  20. XSight

  21. Trex FODFinder

  22. Trex FODFinder

  23. Trex FODFinder

  24. QinetiQ Tarsier Radar http://www.qinetiq.com Stratech iFerret http://www.stratechsystems.com XSight FODetect http://www.xsightsys.com Trex Enterprises FODFinder http://www.trexenterprises.com Automated FOD Detection

  25. Airport Safety R&D FAA Technical Center Airport Technology R&D Branch AAR-411/AJP-6311, Building 296 Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405 Jim.Patterson@faa.gov 609-485-4989 www.airporttech.tc.faa.gov

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