Airport GIS and Special Activity Airspace (Military)

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Airport GIS and Special Activity Airspace
(Military)
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Topics

• From Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) to
  Aeronautical Information Management
• From publications (paper) to data (digital)
• Quality management
• Airport Management
• Digital survey standards
• Airport Layout Plans and Metadata
• Airport ATC operations management
• Special Activity Airspace

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Topics

• From Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) to
  Aeronautical Information Management
• From publications (paper) to data (digital)
• Quality management
• Airport Management
• Digital survey standards
• Airport Layout Plans and Metadata
• Airport ATC operations management
• Special Activity Airspace

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Definition of Aeronautical Information Management
services

• Manage and deliver the information necessary to
  operate within the airspace system
• Airport Operations
• Airspace
• Flight Planning
• Weather
• Services are the glue holding NAS together
• Mission essential Used for strategic, tactical
  and operational air traffic control
• Safety essential Used for air navigation,
  separation assurance
• Example services
• Aeronautical Information Publications
• NOTAMs
• Pilot Weather briefings
• Aeronautical Charts
• Flight Planning Tools

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Topics

• From Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) to
  Aeronautical Information Management
• From publications (paper) to data (digital)
• Quality management
• Airport Management
• Digital survey standards
• Airport Layout Plans and Metadata
• Airport ATC operations management
• Special Activity Airspace

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Airport Management

• Survey Data logger and submission
• Survey standardization
• Airport Layout Plan (ALP) and Airport Metadata
  submission
• ALP Submission Repository
• Feature Extraction
• Airport Office Routing
• Airport GIS Services and Analysis
• Airport Surface NOTAMs
• Terminal Procedure Design
• Airport improvements and performance metrics

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Airport GIS A foundationhttp//airports-gis.faa
.gov/

• FAA Advisory Circular 150/5300-18
• Guidance for airport survey
• Standards-based
• Information management
• Multiple uses for a single survey

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Survey Process Standardization

• Chain of Custody
• Digital from the beginning
• Based on standards
• Benefits
• Cost effective
• Acquire once and use many times

AirportManagement
Survey
Airport GIS
Obstacle Charts
FacilityPlanning
Airport Layout
TerminalProcedures
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Airport GIS Data StandardsEnabling digital
capture and delivery

• LandXML
• Survey collection and transmission
• Supported by survey collection system
  manufacturers
• Supported by CAD and GIS software
• Enables survey collection to CAD/GIS

• AIXM / AirMAT
• Airport Surface data content model
• Features, Attributes, Relationships, Data capture
  rules
• International standards
• Enables information storage, exchange and
  multiple use

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Airport GIS ServicesDigital Airport NOTAMs
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AIXM Requirements

• FAA AIM Group is implementing AIXM throughout our
  programs
• Airports GIS currently supports various file
  formats
• Oracle, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, ESRI Shape, AutoCAD
  DWG, KML
• Airports GISs development pipeline includes
  support for AIXM
• Planning for this now

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Approach

• Planning ahead for future Airports GIS needs with
  our current mapping capability decisions
• Current Thin Client, Customizable, Visualization
  
• Future AIXM, Redlining Annotation, 3D
• Standards Based
• Web Mapping Service (WMS)
• Standard set of parameterized HTTP requests
• Extended WMS with Luciad
• To satisfy the unique requirements of Airports
  GIS

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Findings (1)

• Luciad WMS
• Provided the OGC standard WMS foundation
• Provided access to the LuciadMap core
  functionality
• Luciad WMS extensions
• To meet the specific needs of Airports GIS
• ex. addition of parameters specific to the
  Airports GIS project workflow framework (project
  , etc.)

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Findings (2)

• Benefits of Luciads Java based API toolkit
• Reusability of code across applications
• Near linear horizontal/vertical scaling
• High quality image outputs
• Clear scalability path provides application
  growth
• Luciad WMS Thin client / Server with WMS
  (distributed visualization)
• LuciadMap / Lucy Thick client for future
  functionality (editing, redlining)

Airports GIS v.1
Custom Java Code with Luciad API
Airports GIS v.
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Next Steps

• Initial version of e-ALP built with Luciad WMS
  will be available Fall 2009
• Next version of e-ALP will incorporate additional
  tools advanced configuration
• Redlining
• Editing / Customization
• Annotations

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Summary

• Airports GIS is in the beginning stages of
  visualization implementation
• Received positiveresults with first prototype
• Current and future mapping criteria and ability
  to use AIXM considered in decision to use Luciad
  WMS

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Topics

• From Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) to
  Aeronautical Information Management
• From publications (paper) to data (digital)
• Quality management
• Airport Management
• Digital survey standards
• Airport Layout Plans and Metadata
• Airport ATC operations management
• Special Activity Airspace

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SWIM and AIM

• The FAAs System Wide Information Management
  (SWIM) Program is providing NextGen
  infrastructure for data exchange
• Aeronautical Information systems will need to
  conform to SWIMs architecture
• Exchange of complete information facilitates
  efficiency in the NAS
• Want to create a complete operating picture of
  the NAS
• This presentation focuses on editing SUA and
  ATCAA definitions

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Goals of AIM in SWIM Context

• End-to-end SUA and ATCAA digitization
• From definition to implementation
• NASR will store digitized SUA and ATCAA
  definition data
• SAMS will manage operational status and schedule
• ERAM will report actual hot/cold status back to
  SAMS
• All exchanges using AIXM
• Support field requirements
• The generated data should be used to create legal
  definitions
• This includes user-friendly definitions that
  reference geographical borders (geoborders)
  like rivers, roads, etc.
• Allow for communication between FAA and military
  stakeholders

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Current Status

• SUA data is digitized by NACO and stored in NASR
• Not truly digital complex shapes are stored as
  textual descriptions
• Cannot compute accurate metrics
• Cannot display true geospatial representations of
  shape
• ATCAA data is not nationalized
• Each facility manages its own ATCAAs
• Facilities may have conflicting definitions of
  same ATCAA
• ERAM requires a single definition

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Current Status, contd

• Demo built on LuciadMap software
• Shape generation through CAD editing
• Displays any background and standard aeronautical
  data (ARINC, DAFIF) for visualization
• Want to support design within context
• Mockups of website
• Need feedback from users about what and how they
  want to communicate

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Demonstration of Software
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Conclusion

• The FAA has a need for better information
  management to support decision-making
• SWIM and AIM are providing the tools
• Will require change in detail of procedures with
  few changes to FAA 7400.2
• In the end, we get better data and a streamlined
  process

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Technological Details
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Architecture of Demo

• Data stored in Postgres database
• Interactions with database done through Apache
  CXF (FUSE Web Services FrameworK) web services
• LuciadMap communicates only with web services
• All data is stored and read as AIXM 5.0
• Using the SAA extensions

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LuciadMap

• LuciadMap has proven to be useful as a tool for
  generating airspace editing capabilities
• Primary issue with LuciadMap is lack of
  documentation
• LuciadMaps AIXM 5 capabilities are strong
• By end of development, Luciad had implemented
  ability to read new AIXM 5 documents using
  user-provided XSDs