Airport Wind Observations Architectural Analysis

Abstract

The analysis presented here identifies potential shortfalls in the current wind information architecture, and offers recommendations for improvements that would serve the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the context of Next-Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) enabled concepts. The methodology relied on interviews and discussions with stakeholders, review of existing problem reports and operational logs, search and review of documentation related to wind sensors and operational policy, and analysis of airport wind sensor data. An immediate action to follow up on this architectural analysis would be to initiate a systematic process for evaluating and prioritizing the relative cost/benefit tradeoffs at individual airports.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 10, 2018
Accession Number
AD1128600

Entities

People

  • Darius D. Moradi
  • David A. Clark
  • Richard F. Ferris

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Air Transportation
  • Aircrafts
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Commercial Aviation
  • Data Displays
  • Data Links
  • Detection
  • Display Systems
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Navigation
  • Radar
  • Reliability
  • Sensor Networks
  • United States
  • Voice Communications
  • Weather Forecasting
  • Weather Stations

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design