Civil Airports Products
Recognizing that civil airports have complicated terminals and runway arrangements, Accipiter® Avian Radars are designed to be located anywhere on the airfield, even on roof-tops. Accipiter’s proprietary, adjustable dish antennas ensure that full 360º coverage of take-off and landing corridors is available where bird strike risk is greatest, regardless of the location of the radar. If multiple radars are needed for larger airports, they integrate seamlessly into a unified network for wide-area coverage with our patented M3™ multi-radar, multi-mission, multi-user architecture.
We also recognize that airport stakeholders have unique information needs. That’s why our patented M3™ information system provides user-specified information products and tools so that all users can get what they need simultaneously, whether they are working from home, on the airfield or at their desk. Plots of year-over-year and year-to-date bird abundance and hazard distributions allow airport managers to quantitatively set strategic goals and manage progress, as well as to assess their investments in habitat management. Only Accipiter® Avian Radar systems provide complete replay and forensics associated with 3-D (latitude, longitude, height, speed, heading, size) bird target data that are available forever to support investigations and analysis. Automatically generated hourly bird traffic, abundance patterns and altitude concentrations allow wildlife control personnel to efficiently begin today’s rounds with instant knowledge of last night’s activity, or gain immediate situational awareness in response to a reported bird strike.
Automated, localized hazard alerts to mobile devices support timely responses by wildlife management and air operations personnel as well as warnings to pilots via ATC when hazards persist. 3-D bird trajectories from all radars are integrated into a single, user-friendly, real-time display that also visualizes alerts over a map for ease of use. The same is true for plan-view displays that effortlessly visualize hazard alerts on a map. Simplified displays are available for ATC in the tower cab if desired, and standardized daily reports are automatically generated. Tools to allow users to generate their own displays are also provided. Accipiter’s open, industry-standard interfaces protect your investment, your data, and allow for integration with other airport information and management systems.
Standard trailer-based, single-radar and dual-radar configurations with associated M3™ information systems are suitable out-of-the-box for many airports. However, Accipiter® avian radars support the widest range of platform options (trailers, roof-top, ground-based), antenna options (arrays, single/dual-scanning dishes, and multi-beam antennas) and transceiver options (X- or S-band, conventional, solid-state, Doppler). Our engineers will recommend variations to best suit your needs today and to preserve your investment as your needs change tomorrow.
Accipiter® Avian Radars are fully compliant with the US FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 150/5220-25 "Airport Avian Radar Systems" and satisfy the relevant Buy America preference requirements for AIP and PFC funding. They also meet the Functional Performance Requirements Specification released under the Department of Defense’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program under the Integration and Validation of Avian Radar Project.
