Indra to renovate Turkey's air traffic surveillance network
The modernisation of the network will allow extension of the air traffic management capacity of the country’s airports
Indra, the premier IT company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America, will refurbish and extent the air space surveillance network that controls Turkey's air traffic. The contract was awarded by Turkey's State Airport Authority (DHMI), an organ that depends on the Ministry of Transport, for 38.5 M Euro and is to be concluded within three years.
The new network will be equipped with 18 Mode S Secondary Surveillance radars that automatically interrogate aircrafts for additional information regarding identification and flight altitude. It will also include 5 S-Band Primary Surveillance radars that will cover the whole air space of the country and will be able to locate any aircraft.
The radar stations to undergo modernization are: Merzifon, Ankara, İzmir Adnan Menderes, İzmir Akdağ, Batman, Karaman Ermenek, Burdur Eğlence, İstanbul Yenibosna, Cyprus Ercan, Esenboğa Mira, Bahçe Akçadağ, Dalaman Nuribaba, İnebolu Göynük, Erzurum, Ağrı, Antalya, Trabzon and Kıbrıs Ağırdağı.
The radar systems will be connected with their corresponding control centres and will be integrated in their traffic control systems so that the centres can treat and properly present the information. By using this technology, the air traffic management capacity of the country’s airports could be extended at the same time high security levels are maintained.
In the other hand, Indra will be responsible for the startup of the new Air Approach Control Centre at Trabzon airport, at the Northwest of the country, on the coast of the Black Sea. The company will supply its air traffic management system to the centre providing air traffic controllers with a global vision of activities that might occur in the air space they are responsible for.
The solution combines information from the radars, flight plans of the aircrafts, radiogoniometres and metereological systems. Besides this, it also includes air-to-ground communication links and will be complemented with Indra’s IP-based digital voice proprietary solution.
The system also allows automation of a large number of repetitive air traffic control and flight management tasks.
Experience in ATM
More than 70 countries have trusted in the company’s solutions to supply their control centres and airports with state-of-the-art equipment.
The company cooperates with the main European air navigation service suppliers as well as with the Aeronautics Industry in the programme that aims to the achievement of the single European sky.
The company also supports the modernization processes of air traffic management of Eastern Europe’s main airports. Its systems are also widely used in Latin America. Moreover, its presence in Asia-Pacific is in continuous growth and has some important credentials in Africa.
Indra is the premier Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to stock market capitalisation, and also the second Spanish company with the most investment in R&D. In 2008, revenues reached € 2,380 M, of which a third came from the international market. The company employs more than 29,000 professionals and has clients in more than 90 countries.