The US National
Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Air Traffic
Management (ATM) ontology was developed as a key component of a
semantic data integration system built to support integration,
query, and search over multiple sources of heterogeneous ATM
data, including data from the US Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), NASA, and other non-governmental providers. In this data
integration system, the ATM Ontology is used to bridge multiple
types of aviation data models and enable cross-datasource
querying; the ontology serves as the backbone upon which to
overlay data from multiple sources. The ontology data model
interconnects data from several different aviation realms,
including flight, traffic management, aeronautical information,
weather, and carrier operations.
This work was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Aviation Operations and Safety Program.
The NASA Air Traffic
Management Ontology incorporates data (provided under any
applicable distribution terms and conditions) from the following
sources, and NASA gratefully acknowledges their contribution:
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