Airports Authority of India (AAI) will soon start real time surveillance of planes flying over oceans in the Indian airspace with deployment of a new technology system.
Implementation of Space-Based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data services would fill the gap as the present ground- based infrastructure covers only terrestrial airspace and has limited coverage over oceanic regions.
On Thursday, state-owned AAI inked a contract agreement with Aireon LLC for the space-based air traffic surveillance service in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata’s oceanic airspaces.
“These regions are located in the Arabian sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean and represent over 6 million square kilometres,” a release said.
