ASTERIX (ATC standard)
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This article is about the air traffic control standard. For the fictional character, see Asterix (character).
For other uses, see Asterix (disambiguation).
ASTERIX (short for All Purpose Structured Eurocontrol Surveillance Information Exchange) is a standard for the exchange of air traffic control (ATC) information. It is developed and maintained by the European ATC organization Eurocontrol.
ASTERIX is an extensible standard with a number of different categories, each of which deals with one particular kind of information. These include target reports from surveillance sensors such as radars as well as processed information such as aircraft tracks and various system status messages.
[edit] External links
- ASTERIX page at Eurocontrol
