Digital Air Picture and Airspace Surveillance

Anyone who wants to safely coordinate or protect airspace must first be able to reliably monitor it. Through the Bremen UAS Control Center, we consolidate data from many sources into a consistent situational picture of airspace.

An air situation picture clearly displays the current traffic situation in the airspace: which objects are moving where, whether they are registered, and how the situation is developing. It provides reliable tracks, automatic alerts, and historical analyses—and enables real-time, transparent decision-making.

Value is created through integration: cooperative objects that report their status on their own, and non-cooperative objects that are detected by sensors.

Registered drones make themselves visible via Remote ID and ADS-L and can be uniquely identified.

Signals from manned aviation (including Mode S) are integrated into the image, establishing a connection between manned and unmanned aviation.

RF, radar, and optical sensors also detect objects that don't report their presence – the basis for distinguishing between legal and unknown flights. Learn more about drone detection.

A situational overview is not an end in itself. It gives rise to procedures: Who coordinates flights? Who is notified in the event of irregularities? How are issues escalated? Alerts are triggered automatically, and reports are generated at the push of a button—from plant security all the way to the municipal control center.

The same situational awareness picture that enables the protection of facilities also forms the basis for coordinated drone operations in U-Space. Network identification, traffic information, and compliance monitoring access it directly. Learn more about the UAS control center & U-Space.

The control center provides specific services such as weather services, electronic visualization, and digital air situation displays – all connectable via robust interfaces. Learn more about UTM Data Services.