These devices, also known as beacons, allow aircraft location to be plotted on the air traffic control (ATC) radar. Traffic collision avoidance systems (TCAS) use data from a transponder to reduce the ...

In this section we study the tracking function of an air traffic control (ATC) radar. There are two radars in the ATC system: one for a shorter range and the other for a longer range. The relevant ...

(ref) These codes are transmitted by the aircraft’s transponder, allowing ATC to identify and track each plane on their radar ...