1. MET matters in a Single European Sky
OGC TC / MET DWG Boston 2009
Dennis Hart
Aviation Meteorology Expert
CND / Centre of Expertise Information Management
EUROCONTROL

2. The Ambition 20 Million in 2030 Flights Long-Term Trend Average Growth
Flights in Europe
(Millions) 10 8 6 4 2 5% 0%
-5%
Annual
Growth
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Long-Term Trend
Flights
Average Growth 2

3. The Ambition Enabling handling 3 times the traffic
Improving safety by a factor of 10
Reducing by 10% the environmental impact per flight
Cutting Air Traffic Management ( ATM) costs by 50% 3

4. A Challenge; Fragmentation
The 100 main airports are:
- connected by approx. 600 airspace segments
- controlled by 66 Air Traffic Control Centre’s with many systems
- operated by 38 Air Traffic Service Providers with different cultures
Sectors and routes are designed according to national borders rather than traffic flows
Air Traffic Control Centre's below optimal economic size, duplication of systems & piecemeal procurement, high contingency costs, support costs on research, training & admin too high 4

5. A Challenge; MET Today 5

6. The Money Today; MET
Performance Review Report 2008 (EU footprint): b€ loss in ATFM delays and route extensions - 25% of these ATFM delays are attributed to WX

7. The Money Today; MET
Non-avoidable
225 m€
WX 900 m€
2700 m€

8. SES 2 (adopted March 2009) focus on: - PERFORMANCE - SAFETY - CAPACITY
The Approach; SES
Establishing a single aviation market
Adopting common rules in most relevant areas of the air transport system
Enhancing competition and efficiency throughout the whole value chain of aviation
Developing an external dimension of the EU single aviation market
Started in 2004 by laying down the foundations for:
Legal and institutional framework
Separation of service provision from regulation
Transparency of charges
Harmonisation in licensing of controllers
Advancing the efficient use of airspace
Moving towards interoperable equipment
SES 2 (adopted March 2009) focus on:
- PERFORMANCE
- SAFETY
- CAPACITY
- TECHNOLOGY = SESAR 8

9. The Approach; SESAR 2015-2025 2008-2014 2006-2008 Definition phase
Development phase
Deployment phase
Resulted in the European ATM Master Plan
Managed by the
SESAR Joint Undertaking
Implements the results of the development phase, delivers the service performance increase foreseen in the ATM Master Plan
Based on the Master Plan, results in Standards, new operational procedures, new technologies and pre-industrial components,

10. Foreseen ATM Concept of Operations
Civ/Mil ATM Performance Partnership
Integration of Air- and Ground-systems
Integration of Airport ”turn-around” operations
Time and performance based operations / 4 D B/M Trajectories
The ATM intranet – SWIM
Rolling Network Operations Plan
Automation support to the Human
Efficient separation modes

11. ATM Data Domains share data into SWIM
Transition to SWIM
Flight
Weather
Surveillance
AIM
SWIM
Data
Pool
Airport
Environment
Flow
Management
Capacity
Demand
ATM Data Domains share data into SWIM

12. Connecting information users and providers
Transition to SWIM
SWIM
Data
Pool
Airlines
Aircraft
Industry
ATC
Airport
Other ?
Exchange Information
Use Information
Provide Information
Flight
Surveillance
Airport
Environment
Capacity
AIM
Flow
Weather
Connecting information users and providers
Towards seamless information sharing

13. Interoperable Information Exchange Models
AIXM
ICAO Anx 15
Aeronautical Information
AMXM
EuroCae ED99A/119
Airport Mapping
WXXM
ICAO Anx 3, WMO 306
Weather Information
Development & Implementation
Maturity
ANXM
ICAO Anx 14 (Vol1)
Doc 4444
EuroCae ED145
Airport
Operations
Information

14. Design principle; separation of concerns
Annex 3
Non-ICAO
Future
Products & Services
Observations
Forecasts
Features
OGC O&M
Phenomena
Domain
Domain Measures
Data Types
Domain Geometry
Core Measures
Units
ISO Geometry
ISO Data Types
Base 14 14 14

15. Weather Information Exchange
ISO/OGC
Eurocontrol
Users
WXCMWXXM
WMO
FAA
NWS, NOAA, DoD
ICAO

16. Model development status
WXCM WXXM WXXS
Rational Rose UML GML 3.2 AIXM scripts
WXCM WXXM 1.1 WXXS
HollowWorld UML GML 3.2 FullMoon scripts
WXCM WXXM 2 WXXS
Available
Summer 2009
Q ?

17. Next steps; Proofing the Concept
Aeronautical Information Thread OWS-6
Live trials in Sweden (D-AIM Project)
MET Data Fusion Demonstrator

18. MET Data Fusion Demonstrator

19. MET Data Fusion Demonstrator
Data Ingest
Alphanumeric
Gridded
Vector Graphics
Data Conversion
WXXM compliant format
OGC Web Services
WFS
WMS
(WCS)
MET Data Fusion Demonstrator
Data Ingest
TAF
SIGMET
Volcanic Ash Advisory
Upper Wind
Upper Temperature
Turbulence
Icing
Convective Activity
WX Radar Graphics
Etc

20. MET Data Fusion Demonstrator
GeoServer
Web Server
Data Ingest
Conversion
MySQL
Data Store
OGC client
WFS
WMS
(WCS)

21. Scenario
Stockholm
4D Trajectory
Clermont-Ferrand

22. Data Fusion ESSA AMDB* Weather Obstacles Airspace Restrictions Terrain
LFLC AMDB
Closed Taxiways
Taxiway Routings
(mash-up)
*AMDB = Airport Map Data Base

23. Scenario Setup Catalogue Service Service Bus <KMLt> Information
Applications
Information Service
Service Bus
<KMLt>
Application Service
Information Service
Information Service

24. Turbulence
AMDB
Airspace
Trajectory

25. Terrain Obstacle Routing Closed Taxiway
Routing will be provided by D-Taxi which is under standardisation now.

46. Q&A