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[[File:WAASCoverage LPV.png|center|thumb|400px|Typical WAAS LPV Coverage]]
[[File:WAASCoverage LPV.png|center|thumb|400px|Typical WAAS LPV Coverage]]
==WAAS Signal-In-Space Performance Requirements==
According to the WAAS peformance standard<ref name=WAAS_PSTD>[http://www.pnt.gov/public/docs/2008/waasps2008.pdf Global Positioning System Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Performance Standard,] Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration, USA, 1st Edition, 31 October 2008.</ref> WAAS service area is divided in five coverage zones:
*Zone 1: CONUS.
*Zone 2: Alaska.
*Zone 3: Hawaii.
*Zone 4: Puerto Rico and some other Caribean islands.
*Zone 5: US territory excluding zones 1 to 4.
The volume covered includes a region up to 100.000 feet above the surface. For zones 1 to 4, the area extends up to 30 nm outside the land.
The requirements considering the different flight phases and the different coverage zones are summarised in the next table:<ref name=WAAS_PSTD/>
{| class="wikitable" align="center"
|+align="bottom" |''WAAS Navigation Perforamnce Requirements''
!
! En Route
! Terminal
! LNAV
! LNAV/VNAV
! LPV
! LPV 200
|- align="center"
! TTA
! 15 s
! 15 s
! 10 s
! 10 s
! 6.2 s
! 6.2 s
|- align="center"
! HAL
! 2 nm
! 1 nm
! 556 m
! 556 m
! 40 m
! 40 m
|- align="center"
! VAL
! N/A
! N/A
! N/A
! 50 m
! 50 m
! 35 m
|}


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 12:42, 22 November 2011


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Title WAAS Performances
Author(s) GMV
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Year of Publication 2011
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The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is the United States Satellite Based Augmentation System. The programme, started in 1992, is being carried out by the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)[1] and is specially developed for the civil aviation community.[2] The system, which was declared operational in late 2003,[3] currently supports thousands of aircraft instrument approaches in more than one thousand airports in USA and Canada.[4] WAAS service area includes CONUS, Alaska, Canada and Mexico.[5] The WAAS programme is continuously in evolution; two development phases have been already covered, a third is in progress, and there are plans to improve the capability of the system in parallel with the evolution of the SBAS standards towards a dual-frequency augmentation service.[6]


WAAS Performances

Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) performances are usually described in terms of integrity, accuracy, availability, and continuity. The WAAS specification performance requirements[7] depend on the phase of the flight: 1) en route through non-precision approach (NPA) and 2) precision approach.

According to its specification document, WAAS performance requirements are the following:[7]

1. WAAS Performance Requirements for En Route through 'Non-Precision Approach'
Performances Requirements for En Route through Non-Precision Approach
Performance Requirement Total System Navigation System WAAS Signal-in-Space Airborne
Availability 0.99999 0.99999 0.99999 N/S
Accuracy
95% Horizontal Position
99.999% Horizontal Position
95% Vertical Position
95% Pseudorange

N/S
N/S
N/A
N/A

100 m
500 m
N/A
N/S

N/S
N/S
N/A
N/S

N/S
N/S
N/A
1.2 m
Integrity
Integrity Risk
Time-to-Alarm

N/S
10 s

N/S
10 s

10-7/hour
8 s

N/S
2 s
Continuity
Continuity of Navigation
Continuity of Fault Detection (1)

1 - 10-5/hour
1 - (2x10-5)/hour

1 - 10-5/hour
1 - (2x10-5)/hour

1 - 10-8/hour
1 - 10-5/hour

1 - 10-5/hour
1 - 10-5/hour


(1) Excluding outages of less than 5 minutes.


2. WAAS Performance Requirements for Precision Approach
Performances Requirements for Precision Approach
Performance Requirement Total System Navigation System GPS/WAAS Signal-in-Space Airborne
Availability N/S N/S 0.999 N/S
Accuracy
95% Horizontal Position
95% Vertical Position
95% Pseudorange

33.5 m
9.8 m
N/A

7.6 m
7.6 m
N/S

N/S
N/S
N/S

N/S
N/S
1.2 m
Integrity
Integrity Risk
Time-to-Alarm

N/S
N/S

N/S
N/S

10-7/approach
5.2 s

N/S
N/S
Continuity
Continuity of Navigation
Continuity of Fault Detection
1 - 10-4/approach
N/S
N/S
1 - 10-4/approach
N/S
N/S
1 - (5.5x10-5)/approach
N/S
N/S
1 - (4.5x10-5)/approach
N/S
N/S
N/S stands for Not Specified.
N/A stands for Not Applicable.

On July 10, 2003, the WAAS system was certified for for safety-of-life aviation, covering 95% of the United States, and portions of Alaska [3][8]. At present, WAAS supports en-route, terminal and approach operations down to a full LPV-200 (CAT-I like Approach Capability) for the CONUS, Mexico and Canada. Typical performances provided by WAAS System when considering operating in LPV (Horizontal Alarm Limit = 40 m , Vertical Alarm Limit =50 m) are shown in next figure:[9]

Typical WAAS LPV Coverage


WAAS Signal-In-Space Performance Requirements

According to the WAAS peformance standard[10] WAAS service area is divided in five coverage zones:

  • Zone 1: CONUS.
  • Zone 2: Alaska.
  • Zone 3: Hawaii.
  • Zone 4: Puerto Rico and some other Caribean islands.
  • Zone 5: US territory excluding zones 1 to 4.

The volume covered includes a region up to 100.000 feet above the surface. For zones 1 to 4, the area extends up to 30 nm outside the land.

The requirements considering the different flight phases and the different coverage zones are summarised in the next table:[10]

WAAS Navigation Perforamnce Requirements
En Route Terminal LNAV LNAV/VNAV LPV LPV 200
TTA 15 s 15 s 10 s 10 s 6.2 s 6.2 s
HAL 2 nm 1 nm 556 m 556 m 40 m 40 m
VAL N/A N/A N/A 50 m 50 m 35 m

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