Virtual and Remote Control Tower

Part I. Fundamentals and Preconditions

1. Introduction and Overview
Norbert Fürstenau

2. Visual Features Used by Airport Tower Controllers: Some Implications for the Design of Remote or Virtual Towers
Stephen R. Ellis, Dorion B. Liston

3. Detection and Recognition for Remote Tower Operations
F. J. Schaik, J. J. M. Roessingh, G. Lindqvist, K. Fält

Part II. Remote Tower Simulation and Remote Tower Center

4. Remote Tower Simulation Environment
Sebastian Schier

5. Assessing Operational Validity of Remote Tower Control in High-Fidelity Simulation
Anne Papenfuss, Christoph Möhlenbrink

6. Videopanorama Frame Rate Requirements Derived from Visual Discrimination of Deceleration During Simulated Aircraft Landing
Norbert Fürstenau, Stephen R. Ellis

7. Planning Remote Multi-Airport Control—Design and Evaluation of a Controller-Friendly Assistance System
Rodney Leitner, Astrid Oehme

Part III. RTO Engineering and Field Testing

8. Remote Tower Experimental System with Augmented Vision Videopanorama
Norbert Fürstenau, Markus Schmidt

9. Remote Tower Prototype System and Automation Perspectives
Markus Schmidt, Michael Rudolph, Norbert Fürstenau

10. Which Metrics Provide the Insight Needed? A Selection of Remote Tower Evaluation Metrics to Support a Remote Tower Operation Concept Validation
Maik Friedrich

11. Model-Based Analysis of Two-Alternative Decision Errors in a Videopanorama-Based Remote Tower Work Position
Norbert Fürstenau

Part IV. Alternative Approaches and Perspectives

12. The Advanced Remote Tower System and Its Validation
F. J. Schaik, J. J. M. Roessingh, J. Bengtsson, G. Lindqvist, K. Fält

13. Remote Tower Research in the United States
Vilas Nene

Keywords: Engineering, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Control, Image Processing and Computer Vision