January 2010: NASA Selects AeroTech Research to Develop a Real-Time Wake Encounter Reporting System for Aircraft

AeroTech Research announced the award of a NASA contract to develop a system which will detect and transmit reports of wake encounters from an aircraft to other aircraft and air traffic controllers thereby significantly increasing safety of operations around airports. The system will be readily implemented on any modern commercial airliner to make these encounter reports in real-time.

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October 2009: Hong Kong Observatory Selects AeroTech Research to Analyze Wind Shear and Turbulence Events using Lidar and Flight Data

The Hong Kong Observatory selected AeroTech Research to process wind shear and turbulence data from their ground-based laser-radar (Lidar) detection systems at the Hong Kong International Airport.  Wind shear and turbulence can have dangerous effects on aircraft landing and taking off. Ground-based measurements systems such as Lidars can make wind speed measurement along the approaches to runways to identify wind shears and other hazardous phenomenon.  Of key importance is that the Lidar measurements correlate with what the systems on board aircraft detect.

AeroTech Research has many years of experience in developing wind shear and turbulence detection algorithms for both ground-based sensor and flight data.  AeroTech will process the lidar and flight data using its proprietary algorithm toolset to demonstrate suitable Lidar processing techniques which will correlate to wind shear and turbulence hazards measured on-board aircraft.