Global Airspace Radar
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Season 2 - 007 - Artificial Intelligence in Digital Towers - Andrew Taylor - NATS
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Season 2
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Episode 7
The guest for this episode is Andrew Taylor, Chief Solutions Officer at NATS. Andrew has a long-lasting career in ATM and has shared with us some very interesting view. We discussed the following:
- The job of a Chief Solutions Officer explained
- Where NATS stands with digital and remote towers
- Image recognition and interpretation as an application of AI in digital towers
- Can AI be used to detect deviation from clearances (stop bar overrun) without the need for a ground radar
- More use cases for other parts of AI, not related to image processing: decision making support tools and “virtual assistants”
- AI versus human in regards to errors: the dynamics of new type of hazards and incidents
- Acceptance and certification of AI, in general and at NATS
- AI versus ATCOs
- view on the future of ATM in the next 5 and 50 years