Design and implement of global flight tracking system based on satellite-based ADS-B

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) starts to focus on building and enhance the global flight tracking capabilities after MH370 flight disappeared event happened. But the existing surveillance system such as PSR, SSR and Land-based ADS-B cannot cover the ocean area, and the data density of ACARS is too low to tracking flight real time. Satellite-based ADS-B has the advantage of larger cover range, higher data update rate and can be used for global flight tracking. A global flight display and tracking system which is based on satellite-based ADS-B are designed and implemented in this paper; include system functional design, system architecture design and databases design. Experimental result shows that the software is working stable and effectively in global flight tracking.