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Títol: Airport Digital Mock-up

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PONS PRATS, JORDI

Departament: FIS

Títol: Airport Digital Mock-up

Data inici oferta: 14-12-2021     Data finalització oferta: 14-07-2022


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    MU AEROSPACE S&T 21
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Airport Digital Mock up
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
AIXM is an XML format for Aeronautical Information exchange. Both
FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) and EUROCONTROL have developed
viewer of this format. The aim is to fully digitalize the
aeronautical information in order to open the door to first and
easy exchange and later the development of new applications and
services to airmen.
The project is aimed to analyse the AIXM format, its
particularities and specially its translation into GIS software
format. The final aim is to get a 3D mock-up of the airport which
could be use to assess operational procedures, ground movements,
as well as checking the correctness or the completeness of the
information with regards the reality. The final aim and priority
is contribute to the safety of the operations, whichever they
are.
The working plan of the project includes:
- State-of-the-art analysis on airport technology,
definition and aeronautical information.
- Understanding and translating AIXM format into usable
formats (GIS, PYMaps, ')
- Developing the Airport 3D mock-up
- Validation of the mock-up; comparison with a real-world
example.

Some references:
Yeh, M., Jaworski, J., Swider, C., & Chase, S. (2021). Examining
Minimum Information Requirements for Electronic Aeronautical
Charts. International Journal of Human'Computer Interaction,
37(7), 601-610.
Brunk, B. K., & Porosnicu, E. (2005, July). Aeronautical
information exchange model (AIXM) GIS interoperability through
GML. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual ESRI User
Conference.
Yeh, M., & Chandra, D. C. (2008). Survey of symbology for
aeronautical charts and electronic displays: Navigation aids,
airports, lines, and linear patterns (No. DOT-VNTSC-FAA-08-01).
United States. Federal Aviation Administration.
Chandra, D. C. (2009). Utility and recognition of lines and
linear patterns on electronic displays depicting aeronautical
charting information (No. DOT-VNTSC-FAA-09-03). United States.
Federal Aviation Administration.
BRUNK-brett, B., & POROSNICU-eduard, E. (2006). Aeronautical
Information Exchange Model (AIXM).
Brunk, B., & Porosnicu, E. (2004, August). A Tour of the AIXM
Concepts. In Proceedings from the 2004 ESRI International Users
Conference. Paper (Vol. 2190).
Egami, S., Lu, X., Koga, T., & Sumiya, Y. (2019, October).
Enriching geospatial representation for ontology-based aviation
information exchange. In 2019 IEEE 8th Global Conference on
Consumer Electronics (GCCE) (pp. 238-239). IEEE.
Lai, X., & Hu, J. (2020, March). Research on Application Modeling
and Visualization Based on Aviation Information Exchange Model.
In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol.
790, No. 1, p. 012124). IOP Publishing.
Ren, B., & Jiang, Y. (2021, July). The Implementation of
Aeronautical Information Exchange Model in SWIM. In International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (pp. 188-199).
Springer, Cham.
https://www.aixm.aero/
https://www.aixm.aero/page/free-aixm-viewers
 
Overview (resum en anglès):

The accessibility of the Aeronautical Information is available in format such as AIXM, these formats are most suitable for trained eyes and intended for the purpose of Aerodrome monitoring, Landing & Takeoff procedures and Navigation systems on full fledge devices designed and built for AIXM only.
Let¿s say if we want to develop an Aerodrome game where we can land an aeroplane in an airport whose characteristics are close to the real ones on a cross platform friendly format, it is not possible with the current available formats. In this thesis we take advantage of ENAIRE Spain¿s Air Navigation and Aeronautical Information service provider, availing Aeronautical Information Publication service https://aip.enaire.es/AIP/#LEPA/LESJ, where they provide data regarding to Aerodromes in Spain in the form of PDF¿s and CSV¿s.
The pdfs are usually used by pilots and co pilots as a reference to identify hotspots, taxiways status and obstacles inside the aerodrome, CSV files serve as a data to feed GIS platforms such as QGIS and mostly used by researchers and other people who are involved in aeronautical domain to identify the obstacles in and around the Aerodromes.
We used Python libraries such as Pandas, Camelot to extract and convert data from PDF which are in the form of tables. The extracted information which contains Geo Locations and other critical information such as area, altitude and Runway¿s important properties such as Clear way, Strip dimensions & geographic reference point is combined with the Obstacles data such as Geo Location and other characteristics such as altitude, Lighting, Marking and other available information of obstacles such as Trees, vegetation, Signal Towers into a geojson format.
The Generated output geojson files are viewed on a 2-Dimensional map on http://geojson.io/#map=2/20.0/0.0, which has two split panes where we can view the geojson information and its geolocation against each other

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