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Airport Applications
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Detecting aircraft on the ground is not as easy as detecting cars on a road. Runways and taxiways are much wider than roads, the distances between sensors and the signal processing equipment are much larger, and an aircraft moves much higher above the ground than a car (even when not flying). Also, an airport is a wide open plain, so any metal is much more likely to attract lightning there than elsewhere. Traditional methods of vehicle detection encounter problems under these circumstances. There are microwave detectors used instead, but they are often disturbed or even destroyed by aircraft radar.
Airports are therefore ideal places to benefit from the unique features of fiber optic sensors, especially load sensors. For airport applications SENSOR LINE provides the special FPL series fiber optic load sensors in conjunction with high power versions of the MD-220 opto-electronic interface. |
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