2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 1 Progress in Weather Information Management and Dissemination 2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather

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2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum

Progress in Weather Information Management and Dissemination

2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather ForumLas Vegas, NevadaOctober 13, 2004

Gus MartzaklisNASA John H. Glenn Research at Lewis Field

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NASA Goals and Objectives

Goal: Develop enabling technologies to reduce weather-related accident causal factors by 50% and turbulence-related injuries by 50% by the year 2007.

Objectives:

1. Improve pilots’ ability to obtain, understand and use weather information for safer decision-making.

2. Develop means to expand automated airborne in-situ weather reporting for altitudes below 25,000 ft. for improved forecasts.

3. Develop en-route turbulence hazard prediction, warning and reporting technologies for reducing injuries to passengers and crew.

4. Develop air/ground communications concepts and technologies for improved weather information dissemination.

5. Develop methods to use advanced satellite weather-observation capabilities to improve aviation weather products.

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Wx Info Dissemination Vision & NASA’s Contribution

Developments-to-Date (1st Generation):

• Independent, unique aviation Wx info-only datalinks

• Primarily focused on General Aviation (safety & utility benefit driven)

• End-to-end, stovepiped, packaged Wx delivery & presentation systems

• Minimal use of on-board decision-aids (‘canned’ Wx products)

• WSI In-Flight, XM Wx, Bendix-King FISDL are some examples

Emerging Near to Mid-Term Solutions (2nd Generation):

• Adapt datalinks to carry Wx information with other aviation data

• General Aviation as well as Commercial Transport

• UAT, Iridium, 1090ES, VDLM3, Inmarsat Swift 64 SatCom… examples

Long Term Solution (3rd Generation):

• ‘Design in’ Wx information requirements into future aviation information systems to enable JPDO Network Enabled Ops and FAA’s SWIM

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FY04 Key Progress & FY05 Plans

TAMDAR:

• With partners, completed preparations (sensor development, cert, partnerships..) to conduct FY05 Great Lakes Fleet Evaluation of TAMDAR System with Mesaba Airlines using Iridium system

• With partners, completed preparations for NASA UAT-based FY05 air-air flight experiments using NASA Learjets

Weather-to-the Cockpit Uplink: Plans in place for NASA flight experiments in FY05 integrating 2nd-generation cockpit presentation, interface and datalink research

• On-board NASA 757 or UAL 747 using Inmarsat Swift 64 (demonstrating oceanic application)

• NASA C-206 for General Aviation using WSI SatCom

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FY04 Key Progress & FY05 Plans

Turbulence Airborne Hazard Prediction & Reporting:

• With partners, completed preparations (partnerships, cert, algorithm and radar development) and initiated FY04/05 In-Service Evaluations of Turbulence Radar and Turbulence Auto-PIREP System with Delta Airlines using ACARS

• Plans in place for NASA VDLM3 and 1090ES-based FY05 air-air EPIREP flight experiments using NASA 757 and Learjets

Summary:

• FY05, as the final year of NASA’s Weather Accident Prevention Project, represents technology validation activities of advanced technologies developed during FY00-04

• NASA’s involvement has been instrumental in the implementation of 1st and 2nd generation Wx datalink systems

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Regional/General Aviation En-Route

GroundStation

Building 2

FAA – UAT Ground Stations & Network

Air to Air•Atmospheric Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry

Ground to Air•Graphical Wx Products•Textual Wx Products

40,000 AGL

5,000 AGL Air to Ground•Atmospheric Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry

►FAA SF21►FAA Tech Ctr►MITRE►Sensis

►Equipment/Partnering

►Garmin (avionics radio)

►JHU-APL: Partnership for Engineering, Integration, Validation

►WSI (weather products)

TAMDAR DataCollection

Weather InformationService

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GroundStation

Building 2

Air to Air (1090ES)Turbulence Alerts/Warnings

Ground to Air (VDLM3)•Graphical Turbulence•Weather Products

40,000 AGL

5,000 AGL

VDLM3 Ground Stations & Network

Air to Ground(VDLM3)Aircraft Systems•Wx Requests•Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry

Commercial Transport En-Route

►Sensis / Honeywell

►Rockwell-Collins (avionics)

►FAA (Nexcom)►MITRE


►Universal Weather (Wx products)

Turbulence DataCollection

Weather InformationService

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International/Oceanic En-Route

Building 2

Inmarsat Swift 64 &Network Service Provider

Air to GroundAircraft Systems•Sensor Data•Aircraft Telemetry

Ground to AirGround Systems•Reports & Forecasts•Alerts / Warnings

National/CommercialWeather Providers

AOC, Dispatch, ATC

Air to Air(Air-Ground-Air Routing)

•Turbulence Alerts/Warnings


►EMS (avionics)

►SITA

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2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather Forum 1 Progress in Weather Information Management and Dissemination 2004 Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather