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Abstract

An aircraft landing determination apparatus and method for determining landing status of an aircraft by tracking arriving aircrafts and providing a unique runway assignment therefor. The aircraft landing determination apparatus includes a target processor, a track administrator, and a track reporter. The target processor culls multiple target tracks from a target data transmission provided by a target sensor. The track administrator receives the target tracks, selects at least one arrival track therefrom, and allocates a unique runway assignment to each arrival track. The track reporter receives the arrival track and runway assignment, prepares a track report thereabout, and transmits the track report to a position monitoring apparatus. The method according to the present invention tracks aircrafts approaching a predefined space and can include correlation of selected targets to tracks, thereby confirming track candidate status, and drop zone tracking of the arriving track candidate through at least a portion of a drop zone.

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First Claim