The main objectives from Wave2 have been achieved with the component elements of C, N and S most of all reaching TRL6 at the end of the phase.
On the Communication area point of view, the project intends to increase the maturity for the Future Communication Infrastructure to support the ATM evolution to safe and secure global platform for ATM communications. This introduces new services, applications and new communications technologies based on ATN/IPS: the future SATCOM Data link, the L-BAND Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS) as replacement for VDLM2, new concept of Future Communication extended to open network services and commercial public radio needed for hyper-connected ATM, the use of SWIM concept an principles for A/G safety-critical information sharing, and the validation of the additional Green Profile specification to be integrated on the top of the standard Yellow profile.
Moreover, means for seamless transition from current ATN/OSI infrastructures to ATN-IPS infrastructures have been proposed, in order to facilitate the convergence of heterogeneous ATN-IPS implementations in a global, integrated “system-of-systems” communication infrastructures.
Looking at Navigation, the project concentrates its effort on the provision of a more efficient approach and landing solution to airports, reducing the environmental and noise impact by enabling more flexible approaches by bringing GBAS to a point where it can be industrialised and approved by aviation regulators. Ground based back up to GNSS navigation supporting the same PBN operations and, thereby, mitigating the risks of GNSS degradation is another ambition of the project that proposes a solution based on the improvement of the current DME and a long-term solution based on enhanced DME, vision-sensor, terrain-database and LDACS.
Finally, the project proposes the improvements on the quality of MET&AIS data services for users, with particular attention to flight preparation and anticipation of route modification in flight.
On the Surveillance point of view, the objective is to address the separate evolution of non-cooperative surveillance systems like MSPSR and Video Trackers, and cooperative surveillance systems such as ADS-B, Airport and Wide Area Multilateration (MLAT/WAM) systems as well as establishing new surveillance sensors to support emerging operational needs (like multiple remote tower surveillance). The objective is also the harmonisation and development of the Surveillance Performance Monitoring Tools to support a performance based surveillance (PBS) approach.
The Communication and Dissemination activities have been performed in order to achieve the widest dissemination of knowledge from the project. The activities have been expanded in two directions: towards the marketing activities in order to enhance the commercial potential of the results and towards the notification of project’s results in the International and standardization working groups. Communication and Dissemination are horizontal activities and concentrate on disseminating the results of PJ14 project itself to a wide range of existing or potential stakeholders.
