Abstract: In this paper a system which can give better location accuracy of an aircraft for an Air Traffic Controlling Officer (ATCO) and also to the Pilot taking inputs from various navigation and surveillance facilities like Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR), Global Positioning System (GPS), Very High Frequency Omni Range (VOR) or Doppler VOR(DVOR) and Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) is designed, developed and realized. Navigation of an aircraft is the process of obtaining position/ location information onboard which can be obtained by sensors like VOR/ DVOR, DME and GPS. Surveillance is the process of obtaining same information namely location of an aircraft by the ATCO which is obtained from Radar. The system designed can be used for both navigation and surveillance as it integrates data obtained from SSR, GPS, VOR/ DVOR and DME. The designed system is claimed as novel as it can be used to supplement ground based as well as satellite based data in addition to navigation and surveillance economically at normally designed levels of accuracy and dependability. A multidimensional Kalman filter is used on a Broadcom BCM2837R processor in Linux environment using Mathematica 11 to achieve this objective.

Keywords: SSR, VOR, DVOR, GPS, Radar, DME, Navigation, Surveillance, Multidimensional Kalman filter, Linux, ATCO, Mathematica 11

| DOI: 10.17148/IJIREEICE.2020.8623