Accipiter Radar -a Sicom Company

Bird Strike North America
September 14-17, 2009
Victoria, BC Canada
Accipiter® Radar is proud to be the Title Sponsor of the 2009 Bird Strike North America Conference. Look forward to seeing you there.

LATEST PRESS RELEASES
TCC Airport gets 1st Accipiter Radar in ATC Tower

Safety on the Radar at NTSB Hearing

Accipiter Introduces the Affordable TCOM Accipiter® Aerostat Maritime Surveillance System

RELATED BIRDSTRIKE NEWS
ABC World News Tonight - 23 February 2009 - Radar Could Prevent Avian Attacks. ABC News reporter, Neal Karlinsky, and ABC aviation consultant, John Nance, look at how the danger of birds striking aircraft, which is being attributed to the downing of US Airways Flight 1549 might be avoided by the use of Avian Radars. Steve Osmek, at Sea-Tac Airport, demonstrates these Accipiter® Radars.

CNN.com 11 February 2009 - Airport uses Accipiter Radars to Prevent Bird Strikes. Steve Osmek, wildlife biologist at Sea-Tac Airport credits Accipiter® radars as being the airport's most valuable tool for detecting and tracking birds. In three separate locations, avian radar terminals track the birds within six miles of the airport and up to 3,000 feet. This information is helpful in determining whether the species of bird might be a sparrow as opposed to a Canada goose - an important distinction from a jet engine's perspective.

Port of Seattle Website - February 2009 Sea-Tac Airport has a comprehensive wildlife management program that makes the airport area less attractive for certain wildlife species, thus ensuring a safe environment for aviation and passengers. In August 2007, Sea-Tac became the world's first airport to use avian radar in a long-term monitoring effort to detect potentially hazardous bird activity on and near an airport. Sea-Tac now uses three Accipiter® radars continuously.

Accipiter Radar Technologies & Sicom Products at a Glance
Accipiter® Security Radar

Accipiter® Avian Radar

Frequency Hopping
Signal Intercept Receiver

Radarsim®SBR
Radar Design Tool

SAR-MTI Processors

Accipiter Radar Technologies & Sicom Services at a Glance
Accipiter® Radar Services

Radar Systems R&D

Comm Systems R&D

Biomedical Systems R&D

Accipiter is a proud supporter of:

Aviation Week Bird Strike Prevention Forum

Bird Strike Committee-Canada

Bird Strike Committee-USA

ACCIPITER® RADAR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Accipiter Radar Technologies Inc. (Accipiter) is a subsidiary of Sicom Systems Ltd. Accipiter is a world leader in the development, sale and support of affordable, high-performance radar target information systems marketed under the Accipiter® brand. Accipiter has pioneered the development of affordable radar networks and information systems that provide wide-area situational awareness in a variety of homeland security and aviation safety applications. Accipiter, through its internationally respected team of radar engineers and scientists, will continue to introduce innovations that will lead the market in addressing our customer's evolving requirements. Our customers include major corporations and governments in Canada, the United States, and off-shore.

Accipiter® Avian Radar

The Accipiter®AR product line provides affordable, high-performance, avian radar target information solutions that address natural resource management (NRM) and bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH) management applications. Accipiter®AR is network-enabled to support regional, national and continental sensor integration for wide-area advisory systems.

Bird-aircraft strikes cost in excess of one billion dollars annually in damage to aircraft and interruptions of air operations worldwide, not to mention the potential for loss of life. The Accipiter®AR line provides sophisticated tools to assist wildlife biologists and air operations personnel, including real-time geo-referenced target displays, real-time automated alerts, and historical information that characterize bird movements and abundance.

Accipiter® Security Radar

The Accipiter®SR product line provides affordable, high-performance radar target information solutions for homeland security applications including border enforcement, interdiction, critical infrastructure protection, harbor and port security, coastal surveillance and search and rescue. Accipiter®SR provides all weather, day-night, situational awareness with automated, advance warning of threats in accordance with user-defined business rules. It is network-enabled to facilitate continuous, wide-area radar surveillance, remote target information distribution and remote operation.

Accipiter®SR can be deployed on a variety of platforms to meet mission requirements including trailers, trucks, towers, and rooftops. In addition, Accipiter®SR can be configured as a payload for airborne platforms such as aerostats or UAVs. Accipiter®SR's information system supports integration and fusion of multiple radars and other sensors such as cameras and automatic identification systems (AIS).

RECENT ACCIPITER® INSTALLATIONS

Accipiter Radar and TCOM LP have introduced a new, affordable, wide-area, maritime surveillance radar system that combines the persistence, maturity and superiority of the proven TCOM 32M class of Aerostat's with the light-weight, high-performance Accipiter® Security Radar.
Flying at up to 3,000', the Accipiter® radar payload provides all-weather, day-night, situational awareness of vessels out to 125 km (75 mi).

Radar target information available in the ground station below supports local or remote operation. It can be integrated with other Aerostat and land-based sensors to provide a wide-area surveillance network covering coastlines and water borders. With the addition of an integrated camera and communications suite, the 32M Accipiter® Aerostat becomes a complete command and control system to help address coastal, Arctic and border surveillance applications.

Accipiter Radar has delivered numerous avian radar systems to the FAA for use at civil airports including Seattle-Tacoma International, Chicago O'Hare, and JFK. These systems include rooftop and ground-based avian radars. Accipiter's gold standard tracking algorithms in all Accipiter ® radars produce high quality bird tracks capable of distinguishing individual and flocking bird movements for birds as small as starlings, as can be seen in this photo. Click photo to view larger version. Accipiter® radars are ideal for both the

wildlife management mode of operation and the scene-and-avoid mode of operation, as a result of its patented multi-mission, target information system architecture. It's all about the right picture, to the right person, in real-time.