Virtual and Remote Control Tower: Research, Design, Development and Validation

Part I Fundamentals & Preconditions.- Introduction and Overview.- Visual Features Used by Airport Tower Controllers: Some Implications for the Design of Remote or Virtual Towers.- Detection and Recognition for Remote Tower Operations.- Part II Remote Tower Simulation Environment and Remote Tower Center.- Remote Tower Simulation Environment.- Assessing Operational Validity of Remote Tower Control in High Fidelity Simulation.- Video Frame-Rate Requirements from Visual Discrimination of Deceleration During Simulated Aircraft Landing.- Planning remote multi-airport control - controller-friendly assistance.- Part III RTO Engineering and Field Testing.- Augmented Vision Videopanorama Experimental System with Augmented Vision Videopanorama.- Remote Tower Prototype System and Automation Perspectives.- Which metrics provide the insight needed? A selection of remote tower evaluation metrics to support a remote tower operation concept validation.- Model-based Analysis of Two-Alternative Decision Errors in a Videopanorama-based Remote Tower Work Position.- Part IV Alternative Approaches and Perspectives.- The Advanced Remote Tower System and its Validation.- Remote Tower Research in the United States.