A smart airport automation system gathers and reinterprets a wide variety
of aircraft and airport related data and information around unattended or
non-towered airports. Data is gathered from many different types of
sources, and in otherwise incompatible data formats. The smart airport
automation system then decodes, assembles, fuses, and broadcasts
structured information, in real-time, to aircraft pilots. The fused
information is also useful to remotely located air traffic controllers
who monitor non-towered airport operations. The system includes a data
fusion and distribution computer that imports aircraft position and
velocity, weather, and airport specific data. The data inputs are used to
compute safe takeoff and landing sequences, and other airport advisory
information for participating aircraft.