AIR NEXUS Technology
Technical foundations for a shared airspace intelligence model.
Different technical foundations, working inside one model for understanding the airspace.
Evidence levelE1Architecture Defined
From sensing to a shared state
Five foundations, three jobs. Sources observe, time alignment makes them comparable, and correlation relates what they saw.
- Sense and receiveRadio, reflected signals, images and cooperative messages each arrive as their own family of evidence.
- Align and qualifyEvery observation is brought to one clock and given a statement of its quality.
- Correlate and fuseObservations that may belong together are related, and the link back to each source is kept.
What each foundation adds, and what it cannot prove alone
A comparison in words, with no scores. The third column names the conditions that change the answer.
| Foundation | What it adds | What it cannot prove alone | Conditions that change it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passive RF Sensing | Evidence of emissions where nothing else is looking | What the emitter is, or who sent it. | Terrain, buildings and the local radio environment |
| Passive Coherent Location (Passive Radar) | Continuous watch of an area from signals already in the air | A single position from one pair of transmitter and receiver. | Which transmitters are present, and the paths between them |
| Electro-Optical & Infrared Perception | The class and surroundings of an object in view | Anything outside the view, in the dark or in poor weather. | Light, haze, rain, glare and background |
| Cooperative & External Aviation Data | Identity and intent that senders choose to share | Objects that do not report, or reports that are wrong. | Feed delay, completeness and local rules on who broadcasts |
| Time Alignment & Data Quality | A common clock and a visible measure of data quality | That an aligned observation is true. | Network delay, clock drift and loss of a reference |
How far to trust each page
Each foundation is described at the evidence level of the projects that implement it. A foundation that is sound on paper is still a design until it has been tested in the field.
Highest level among the linked projectsEvidence level: E1 · Architecture Defined