Application of Military Weather Thresholding and Big Data Analytics to Civil Trajectory-Based Weather Avoidance Rerouting

摘要

This year, ATCA is co-locating its 59th Annual Conference & Exposition with the Civil/Military Aviation Conference (CMAC). While there are many operational issues faced by both civil and military air traffic management (ATM), weather will continue to impact efficient and predictable air operations in the civil side as well as successful mission objectives on the military side. Thus, the timing is right to consider weather avoidance and resolution technologies developed for the military to civil air traffic control challenges and vice-versa. The challenge with military systems is that, by their operational requirements, publication even of non-classified components such as weather decision support tools is not widely known. Review of related work shows that all three services (Army, Navy and Air Force) have each developed a version of a weather avoidance decision aid embedded in operational command and control systems. An encouraging aspect of this development is that these weather tools are open geospatial consortium (OGC) compliant data models and are built using web services so the potential for re-use is possible.