Archival service in the aviation domain

This paper describes Internal Research and Development (IR&D) work in progress that is being performed by Boeing Advanced Air Traffic Management (AATM) and IBM. Boeing and IBM are implementing a service that records, retrieves, analyzes and visualizes patterns using aviation data. The initial implementation is based on aircraft surveillance data. Boeing AATM has been receiving live Aircraft Situation Display to Industry (ASDI) data and archiving it for over two years. At the present time, there is not an easy mechanism to perform analytics on the data. The incoming data is large, compressed, and requires correlation with other flight data before it can be analyzed. The service exposes this data once it has been uncompressed, correlated, and stored in a database for further analysis using a variety of descriptive, predictive, and possibly prescriptive analytics tools. The service is being built partially in response to requests from Boeing Commercial Aviation for analysis of capacity and flow in the US National Airspace System. The service utilizes IBM Warehouse with DB2, WebSphere Message Broker, XML Shredding, and will be used with IBM analytics products. This paper describes the service implementation and the value it adds to the aviation domain.