AIRPORT TERRAIN & OBSTACLE
Airspace protection and obstacle clearance are vital to ensuring safe airport and aircraft operations. Regulations, procedures and standards exist for determining obstructions to navigable airspace, including the height of buildings, antennas, trees, and other objects in the vicinity of airports. Airports and Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) are required by ICAO to publish obstacle charts for various scenarios including engine-out and emergency operations.
The IDS AirNav electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data-set (e-TOD Suite) is designed to import, validate and disseminate airport, terrain and obstacle data, and to aid in the creation and maintenance of aerodrome surfaces (for safe operations) and obstacle charts, ensuring that data quality and integrity is of the highest level and in compliance with international data quality requirements (ICAO Annex 15, up to the latest amendments).
e-tod suite
AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM TO ACQUIRE, VALIDATE AND MANAGE AIRPORT, TERRAIN AND OBSTACLE DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH ICAO ANNEX 15
The IDS AirNav e-TOD (electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data-set) Suite is an AIM (aeronautical information management) solution designed to manage airport, terrain and obstacle data, ensuring compliance with international data quality requirements (ICAO Annex 15).
Primarily for use by civil and military Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) and airports, its main functionalities include data import, validation, management, reporting and processing, and making all elements available for data dissemination (including obstacle chart construction and delivery).
The Terrain and Obstacle Database (TOD) and the Airport Mapping Data Base (AMDB) are able to support all activities and provide a common basis either to perform aeronautical charting or to design airspace and flight procedures within the IDS AirNav FPDAM interactive environment.
e-TOD is a modular system, parts of which can be used standalone while others can be integrated with the IDS Air Nav Aeronautical Suite.
E – TOD MAIN APPLICATIONS
Obstacle and terrain data have been catalogued and published in several different ways, with different methodologies and responsibilities over the years in different countries.
The improvement in technology led industry to ask for new requirements for digital terrain and obstacle data which integrated requirements for airport data information. ICAO replied with new requirements for TOD data which were published in Annex 15 Amendment 33 and 36.
eTOD will help different organizations to manage and maintain airport and human made data in a secure and controlled way for the next processing and dissemination.
