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A new air surveillance system is being developed in the US

Washington , USA - It will take the radar's place by 2013

In 2013 it is foreseen that the air space in the United States will not be monitored anymore by radars, by now the positioning system for aircraft in the air, but by a satellite-based surveillance system named Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast System, or ADS-B, which promises to make the monitoring activity ten times more efficient than at the moment. The new technology relies upon a the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1082382
Rome, Italy, 11/21/2007 14:44
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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