Global Positioning System (GPS) Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Category I to Category III Architecture Transition Options

Federal Aviation Administration Engineering, 2000-01

Liaison(s): Calvin Miles ’87
Advisor(s): Patrick Little
Students(s): Marc Gimbel (TL), Michael Beebe, Michael Messina, James Riehl

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has hired the Clinic team to analyze possible improvements to the Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) Ground Station architecture. The current LAAS system does not take advantage of several advances that are available in the areas of multipath-reducing antennas, antenna voting schemes, and multi-sensor airborne continuity augmentation. The Clinic team will investigate the improvements, quantify the potential system performance gains, and choose the optimum set of improvements.