Originally Posted by
golfyankeesierra
yes, but that is still procedural separation, where increased surveillance allows lower separation thus increasing capacity.
for (semi-)radarvectors you would need continuous position down links and uniform requirements for downlink delays (that vary per type) so don’t see that happening.
Did you read the linked article?
“Fusion takes all the surveillance sensors available for an aircraft target – whether radar, Multilateration (MLAT), Wide Area Multilateration (WAM), space-based or ground-based ADS-B – and fuses all these sources to create a single track,” said Steve Williams, assistant vice president, ATM engineering, on a company blog.
At its core are complex mathematical algorithms that can deliver more complete and accurate flight data directly to controllers’ display screens. This advanced new-generation system significantly improves accuracy when providing aircraft position estimates and represents the future of ATC surveillance technology.
Retiring the legacy system Radar Data Processing System Re-host (RDPS-R)
The technology itself is replacing the provider’s legacy Radar Data Processing System Re-host (RDPS-R), which has been operating across the air navigation system for 20 years. RDPS-R has always been a robust and exceptionally reliable workhorse in our stable of ATM technologies, but it was never designed to process the high volume of data that will originate from space-based ADS-B.