Graceful Degradation of Air Traffic Operations: Airspace Sensitivity to Degraded Surveillance Systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2028-2039

  Gariel, Maxime ^a   Feron, Eric ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

air traffic control; air traffic operations; Airspace; graceful degradation; sensitivity; surveillance failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651106079     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2006135     Document Type: Article

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