Mandala, 10:00 Team 24 Disclaimer: This paper partially fulfills a writing requirement for first-year (freshmen) engineering students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. This paper is a student paper, not a professional paper. This paper is not intended for publication or public circulation. This paper is based on publicly available information, and while this paper might contain the names of actual companies, products, and people, it cannot and does not contain all relevant information/data or analyses related to companies, products, and people named. All conclusions drawn by the authors are the opinions of the authors, first-year (freshmen) students completing this paper to fulfill a university writing requirement. If this paper or the information therein is used for any purpose other than the authors' partial fulfillment of a writing requirement for first-year (freshmen) engineering students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, the users are doing so at their own—not at the students', at the Swanson School's, or at the University of Pittsburgh's—risk. ADS-B AVIATION TECHNOLOGY Leanne Boody
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[email protected] Abstract—Dated technology in aviation has left much traditional ground radar methods that were employed to room for improvement in both the safety and efficiency of track Malaysian Flight 370. Automatic Dependent flying. This paper will discuss the new Automatic Surveillance - Broadcast could have saved countless hours Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) technology and millions of dollars searching for the lost flight. and how it utilizes the global positioning system (GPS) Catastrophes like that can hopefully now be avoided technology to address the various challenges that stem from because the enhanced weather pattern intelligence ADS-B increasing plane travel and air traffic and to improve upon technology provides.