Airspace deconfliction: telling friend from intruder in crowded low-altitude airspace
One shared picture of manned aircraft, friendly drones and intruders, so detection and response never put the wrong aircraft at risk.
For: Counter-UAS operators, DFR and aviation units, airports, event and installation commanders
What the paper covers.
Low-altitude airspace is filling up, and more agencies are allowed to detect and defeat drones. Every new actor raises the same question: is that aircraft one of ours?
Getting it wrong is costly, from a drone striking a firefighting aircraft to an uncoordinated counter-drone action closing an airport.
Recommendations
- Run one picture for everything in the air, fusing cooperative and non-cooperative sources
- Mark friendly aircraft automatically and interlock against acting on them
- Coordinate before you act, and log every decision
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