Publications
Controller-human interface design for the final approach spacing tool
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The Federal Aviation Administration is developing a set of software tools, known as the Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS) to assist air traffic controllers in their management and control tasks. CTAS originated at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, where prototypes continue to evolve. In parallel, Massachusetts Institute...
Measuring fine structure in speech: application to speaker identification
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The performance of systems for speaker identification (SID) can be quite good with clean speech, though much lower with degraded speech. Thus it is useful to search for new features for SID, particularly features that are robust over a degraded channel. This paper investigates features that are based on amplitude...
Language identification using phoneme recognition and phonotactic language modeling
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A language identification technique using multiple single-language phoneme recognizers followed by n-gram language models yielded to performance at the March 1994 NIST language identification evaluation. Since the NIST evaluation, work has been aimed at further improving performance by using the acoustic likelihoods emitted from gender-dependent phoneme recognizers to weight the...
The effects of telephone transmission degradations on speaker recognition performance
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Summary
The two largest factors affecting automatic speaker identification performance are the size of the population an the degradations introduced by noisy communication, channels (e.g., telephone transmission). To examine experimentally these two factors, this paper presents text-independent speaker identification results for varying speaker population sizes up to 630 speakers for both...
Data processing techniques for airport surveillance radar weather sensing
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Discusses data processing techniques that can provide high quality, automated weather information using the FAA's existing Airport Surveillance Radars (ASR-9). The cost of modifying the ASR-9 is significantly less than that for deployment of the dedicated terminal Doppler weather radar. These techniques have been implemented on a prototype ASR-9 weather...
Comparative analysis of ground-based wind shear detection radars
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The UNISYS Corporation has developed a microburst prediction radar (MBPR) to provide detection and short-term predictions of the most hazardous form of low altitude wind shear in the vicinity of an airport. The MBPR is intended for deployment on- or near-airport so as to minimize range coverage (and associated radar...
Terminal Weather Information for Pilots (TWIP) Test Report for 1994 Memphis and Orlando Demonstrations
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Demonstrations of delivering the Terminal Weather Information for Pilots (TWIP) products to air carrier pilots via the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) data link were carried out at Memphis and Orlando during the summer of 1994. Six airlines participated in the demonstrations at both airports. The Terminal Weather...
Automatic dependent surveillance broadcast via GPS-squitter: a major upgrade to the National Airspace System
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GPS-Squitter is a technology for Surveillance of aircraft via broadcast of their GPS-determined positions to all listeners, using the Mode S data link. It can be used to provide traffic displays, on the ground for controllers and in the cockpit for pilots, and will enhance TCAS performance. It is compatible...
Initial evaluation of the Oregon State University Planetary Boundary Layer Column Model for ITWS applications
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Summary
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) is supporting the development of products important for air traffic control in the terminal area. Some ITWS is supporting the development of products important for air traffic control in the terminal area. Some ITWS products will allow air traffic managers...
TCAS III bearing error evaluation
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Summary
TCAS III seeks to enhance TCAS II by providing resolution advisory (RA) capability in the horizontal plane. Additionally, elimination of nuisance RAs through the use of miss distance filtering (MDF) are sought to make TCAS more compatible within the airspace. Both functions (horizontal RAs and MDF) are enabled with accurate...