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Asia Pacific helps lead ADS-B advance
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) has emerged as what many describe as the surveillance technology of the future, but Asia Pacific air nav

Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) has emerged as what many describe as the surveillance technology of the future, but Asia Pacific air navigation service providers (ANSPs) are already taking advantage of its capability and cost-efficiency.

In fact, the Asia Pacific region stands at the forefront of a global switch from conventional secondary radar (SSR) to the new technology. Thales is deploying a national network in Australia. Fiji is looking for a system to cover the 2.4 million square miles of the Nadi flight information region in the South Pacific. And in October China announced that it was about to embark on its first commercial aviation trial of ADS-B at Chengdu Shuangliu International and Jiuzhai Huanglong airports in preparation for nationwide deployment.

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