28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-10.7.4

ESTIMATING TIME TO LOSS OF SEPARATION WITH UNCERTAIN POSITION AND VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS

G. L. Crouse
Auburn Univ., USA

Keywords: conflict avoidance; air traffic control

Time to loss of separation can be used to determine whether two aircraft are imminent collision threats to each other. The effect that uncertainties in position and velocity have on estimating time to loss of separation between two aircraft is examined along with several different methods for including those uncertainties.

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