Tarsier ® Q Customer Case Study Vancouver International Airport (YVR) YVR is Canada’s second-busiest airport and the second largest international passenger gateway on the West Coast of North America. The airport operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is a community of businesses, organizations and government agencies that work together to provide safe, convenient air travel. Pioneers of airport innovation The world’s first automated FOD detection system, Tarsier, has been successfully installed at Vancouver International Airport. Tarsier, developed by QinetiQ, can detect and locate small items of potentially dangerous debris on airports runways and can operate around the clock in all weathers. A Tarsier system has been installed by QinetiQ at Vancouver, covering the airport’s north and south parallel runways, each of which is approximately three kilometres long. A display unit, providing the operations team with an all-weather, round- the-clock runway picture, has been installed in the airport’s Operations Centre. “We are proud to be the first airport in the world to install Tarsier. We have worked closely with QinetiQ since deciding to purchase the system last year and, following a series of demanding tests, we are now is a position to accept the equipment into active operation. Tarsier provides Vancouver with a completely new view of our runways and represents a significant step forward in airport safety.” Brett Patterson Director of Airside Operations Vancouver International Airport Authority Detect | Locate | Identify Customer Contact Team QinetiQ Cody Technology Park Ively Road Farnborough Hampshire GU14 0LX United Kingdom Tel +44 [0] 8700 100 942 www.QinetiQ.com/Tarsier Copyright © QinetiQ ltd 2006 Increase airport safety Increase airport capacity Reduce the financial impact of FOD

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Vancouver International Airport (YVR)YVR is Canada’s second-busiest airport and the second largest international passenger gateway on the West Coast of North America. The airport operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is a community of businesses, organizations and government agencies that work together to provide safe, convenient air travel.

Pioneers of airport innovationThe world’s fi rst automated FOD detection system, Tarsier, has been successfully installed at Vancouver International Airport. Tarsier, developed by QinetiQ, can detect and locate small items of potentially dangerous debris on airports runways and can operate around the clock in all weathers.

A Tarsier system has been installed by QinetiQ at Vancouver, covering the airport’s north and south parallel runways, each of which is approximately three kilometres long. A display unit, providing the operations team with an all-weather, round-the-clock runway picture, has been installed in the airport’s Operations Centre.

“We are proud to be the fi rst airport in the world to install Tarsier. We have worked closely with QinetiQ since deciding to purchase the system last year and, following a series of demanding tests, we are now is a position to accept the equipment into active operation. Tarsier provides Vancouver with a completely new view of our runways and represents a signifi cant step forward in airport safety.”

Brett PattersonDirector of Airside Operations

Vancouver International Airport Authority

Detect | Locate | I

dentify

Customer Contact TeamQinetiQ

Cody Technology ParkIvely Road Farnborough

Hampshire GU14 0LXUnited Kingdom

Tel +44 [0] 8700 100 942www.QinetiQ.com/Tarsier

Increase airport safetyIncrease airport capacityReduce the fi nancial impact of FOD