TY - JOUR
T1 - Line of sight visibility analysis for foreign object debris detection system
AU - Fizza, G.
AU - Idrus, S. M.
AU - Iqbal, F.
AU - Hassan, W. H.W.
AU - Shibagaki, N.
AU - Kashima, K.
AU - Hamzah, A.
AU - Ambran, S.
AU - Kawanishi, T.
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This study aims to determine the millimeter-wave radar pole's optimum height and location, subject to the visibility and obstruction. A method for testing LOS visibility has been used in this paper. The method applied to Kuala Lumpur International Airport ( KLIA) on its 32L/14R runway. An experienced team of experts carried out a visual analysis test at night for seven-millimeter radar poles. It has been shown that visibility determines the best possible location from the center of the runway ranging from 185 m to 260 m and the optimum height range from 7 m to 11 m. The method presented in this research plays an important role in determining the radar, antenna, camera, or watchtower's best location and height. This work can be further extended to a complex runway system to analyze the pole's height and exact location using airport surveillance and safety visibility test. Acknowledgments This work was conducted as a part of a collaborative project entitled “FODDS Field Trial at KLIA,” funded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, also supported by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia institutional grant 08G49 and 01M62. The authors would like to thank Malaysia
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PY - 2021/6/11
Y1 - 2021/6/11
N2 - It is challenging to monitor busy airports' runway through visual inspection to precisely detect foreign object debris. Currently, many technologies for the detection of foreign object debris are available. It has been investigated that millimeter-wave radar technology's detection capability can be one of the most effective techniques for detecting foreign object debris as it is weather-resilient. However, the positioning and height of a millimeter-wave radar pole covering the runway area, considering the existing runway infrastructure, are challenging. The task involves finding the appropriate placement and optimum height. This paper presents a novel method of line of sight visibility for placement and height of radar pole using human factor research to ensure that each point on the runway is visible from various heights of the millimeter-wave radar pole to the runway locations. Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia runway 32L/14R, has used a case study to test the visibility analysis. The visual analytic test's successful results for different millimeter-wave radar pole locations and viewing heights under a visible and invisible line of sight conditions on the runway have been verified in the field experiment.
AB - It is challenging to monitor busy airports' runway through visual inspection to precisely detect foreign object debris. Currently, many technologies for the detection of foreign object debris are available. It has been investigated that millimeter-wave radar technology's detection capability can be one of the most effective techniques for detecting foreign object debris as it is weather-resilient. However, the positioning and height of a millimeter-wave radar pole covering the runway area, considering the existing runway infrastructure, are challenging. The task involves finding the appropriate placement and optimum height. This paper presents a novel method of line of sight visibility for placement and height of radar pole using human factor research to ensure that each point on the runway is visible from various heights of the millimeter-wave radar pole to the runway locations. Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia runway 32L/14R, has used a case study to test the visibility analysis. The visual analytic test's successful results for different millimeter-wave radar pole locations and viewing heights under a visible and invisible line of sight conditions on the runway have been verified in the field experiment.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1878/1/012006
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1878/1/012006
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85108647456
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 1878
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012006
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Emerging Electrical Energy, Electronics and Computing Technologies 2020, ICE4CT 2020
Y2 - 21 December 2020 through 22 December 2020
ER -