Abstract: An airport surface detector and control system to detect aircraft, vehicles, and other objects moving on concerned pathways of the airport, including at least a Central Processing Unit and Central Surveillance/Control Unit. The system comprises at least a laser-scanning head at the entry of the pathways, and able to cooperate to identify the moving object on its pathway, integrated by a plurality of ground laser-detector units distributed along the pathway and placed one in front of the other. Each ground detector unit contains at least a laser emitter or a laser receiver and one laser ray is emitted from each head against the other head, in a parallel close way, in order to be able to detect interruption of one and/or the other laser-ray.