The lower airspace is going to get congested like never before, but prior to the population growth up there, the infrastructure to Monitor and Manage the plethora of flying objects must be put in place.
For the beginners, the airspace needs to be monitored in real time with help of RF sensors, which can be either custom build Drone detection arrays or full Spectrum monitoring with SDR based SIGINT suite.
The EO devices, consisting of day time Cameras can be complemented with Thermal ones, however, Radars can give an all day surveillance.
In some cases Acoustic sensor arrays can also be found useful.
Once the complete situational picture is built, the operator needs to evalute each occupant’s activity on real time basis, given the need for split second decision making and constant analysis of every move, the humongous volume of raw data is sifted with help of AI/ML computing on the edge and inference is derived.
The ad^2 suite processes the Friend or Foe algorithms on the go and if any anomaly is detected, the threat is analysed on basis of the rules and alerts are generated.
If the object is found to be a real threat, the kill chain gets initiated.
Some of the Drones can be a threat to aviation in general and the assets on the ground, if so, Jamming and Spoofing sequences are the primary responses, if the rogue entry persists, Kinetic Kill chain is quite effective against most of the commercially available and some of the nefarious ones. One of the safer strategies is to capture those mid air with the help of Interceptor drones and haul the intruder to a safe zone for disposal, see more at https://adibis.in/index.php/2024/05/19/how-does-the-interceptor-work/
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