With commercial airline traffic
expected to top one billion passengers annually by 2016 (compared with
the 769 million who flew in 2007), there are more aircraft than ever
taxiing, taking off and landing on airport runways. All of this
airfield congestion requires technology that can monitor what is
happening at the dizzying pace it is occurring, and radar, a World War
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