GPS and the Next Generation Air Transportation System

The Federal Aviation Administration and its partners in the aviation industry are engaged in an unprecedented effort to modernize air transportation. The Next Generation Air Transportation System, or NextGen, will replace outmoded terrestrial navigation and surveillance systems, and analog voice communications, with modern, space-based digital technologies, thereby increasing operating efficiencies, enhancing safety, and improving environmental performance. The speaker will describe the NextGen concept and technologies, with particular emphasis on NextGen\u27s Global Positioning System (GPS) applications. He will describe how Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B), Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS), and Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) will be used to improve the performance of air transportation.https://commons.und.edu/ss-colloquium/1032/thumbnail.jp