• T

• he purpose of this Thesis is to improve safety by proposing a localization scheme based on free space optical communication systems for Helicopter takeoff and landing. In this work, the purpose system is a redundancy to radio communication. Conventional radio communication and navigation systems suf

fer several challenges such as interference from different electrical signals, bandwith limitations, weather impacts, obstruction to localizer caused by enormous constructions and airport hangars. The aforementioned difficulties can be improved by the suggested localization scheme. Furthermore, it is immune to electromagnetic signal interference, offers a higher bandwith, lower latency, increased security, it is less expensive to operate and maintain than RF communication. The design is implemen