Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the position of objects in a space including a target supervisor, a location supervisor, and a hazard monitoring supervisor. The apparatus can detect and respond to a potential wake-vortex hazard condition. The tracking supervisor receives target data from a sensor, characterizes and tracks selected objects, and provides target outputs having features respective of the selected objects. The location supervisor characterizes and displays features in the space, and provides a location output having the aforementioned features. The hazard monitoring supervisor detects and responds to potential hazard conditions, and provides a notice of such conditions, responsive to the target outputs and the location output. A data logger selectively retains the target outputs, the location output, or both. The position monitoring apparatus has six modes: full operation, non-airport-surveillance-radar, isolation, set-up, adaptation, and simulation.

Abstract: An aircraft landing determination apparatus and method for determining landing status of an aircraft by tracking arriving aircrafts and providing a unique runway assignment therefor. The aircraft landing determination apparatus includes a target processor, a track administrator, and a track reporter. The target processor culls multiple target tracks from a target data transmission provided by a target sensor. The track administrator receives the target tracks, selects at least one arrival track therefrom, and allocates a unique runway assignment to each arrival track. The track reporter receives the arrival track and runway assignment, prepares a track report thereabout, and transmits the track report to a position monitoring apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the position of multiple objects in a space including a target supervisor, a location supervisor, and a hazard monitoring supervisor. The tracking supervisor receives target data from a sensor, characterizes and tracks selected objects, and provides a target output having multiple features respective of the selected objects. The location supervisor characterizes and displays multiple features in the space, and provides a location output having the aforementioned features therein. The hazard monitoring supervisor detects and responds to a predetermined hazard condition, and provides a detectable notice of such hazard condition, responsive to the target output and the location output. A data logger for selectively retains the target output, the location output, or both. The position monitoring apparatus has six modes: full operation, non-airport-surveillance-radar, isolation, set-up, adaptation, and simulation.