Release Terms, Information, and Acknowledgments

NASA Air Traffic Management Ontology

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:

• US Federal Aviation Administration:
  
• Airport performance data (from Aviation System Performance Metrics database), public access
  
• National Airspace System facility and route data (from the National Flight Data Center), public access
  
• Airspace sector boundaries (from the Aeronautical Data Exchange), distributed with permission
• Flight track and flight plan data (from Aircraft Situation Display to Industry data feed), distributed with permission
• Aircraft registration data (from FAA Aircraft Registry), public access
• Traffic management advisories (from Air Traffic Control System Command Center), public access
  
  
• US Department of Transportation:
• Runway data (from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics), public access

• US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency:
• Airport current and forecast weather data (from the National Weather Service), public access

• Commercial Aviation Safety Team / International Civil Aviation Organization:
• Aircraft make/model/series information (from the CICTT Aircraft Taxonomy), distributed with permission

• OpenFlights.org:
• Airport and airline data (from the OpenFlights Airports and Airlines databases), distributed in accordance with license and disclaimer terms
  

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