The 12th OpenSky Symposium

07/08 November 2024 – Hamburg, Germany

Programme

Note: All times are CET (UTC+01:00)

We will make announcements all along the conference on the new OpenSky Network discord channel. Please feel free to join anytime.

Thursday, 07/11/2024
09:00 – 09:30
Opening words
09:30 – 10:30
Session: Filtering and Anomalies Chair: Manuel Waltert
Filtering Techniques for ADS-B Trajectory Preprocessing
Xavier Olive, Jan Krummen, Benoit Figuet, and Richard Alligier
Predicting Geopolitical Instability Through GPS Anomalies Detected via OpenSky
Eugene Pik, Joao Garcia, and Matthew Berra
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Session: ADS-B Communication, Reception, and Security Chair: Ivan Martinovic
Modelling ADS-B Reception Probability Using OpenSky
Muhammad Fazlur Rahman, Joost Ellerbroek, and Jacco Hoekstra
Uplink1030 - A Software-Defined Mode S Uplink for ADS-B and TCAS
Daniel Dorigatti and Martin Strohmeier
12:00 – 13:00
Session: Route Optimization and Air Traffic Efficiency Chair: Junzi Sun
Uncovering Hidden Inefficiencies in the Route Availability Document (RAD) Network
Raphael Monstein and Jan Krummen
Improving Efficiency Through the Publication of Dynamic Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs)
Jan Krummen, Timothé Krauth, Raphael Monstein, and Jan Allendorf
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00
Session: Environmental Impact and Air Traffic Risks Chair: Tatiana Polishchuk
Automating the Estimation of Noise and Emissions Based on Open Data
Gonçalo Soares Roque and Johannes Reichmuth
Assessing the Air Risk of Long-Range Drone Operations
Patrick Le Blaye and Sergio Pizziol
15:00 – 15:15
Coffee break
15:15 – 16:00
"Spotlight" Session Chair: Allan Tart
Assessing Climate Effects Resulting from Airspace Closures Following the Ukrainian Crisis
Zarah Lea Zengerling, Sami Kumpa, Maximilian Mendiguchia Meuser, and Julian Solzer
Evaluating the Feasibility of OpenSky Data for Independent Safety Monitoring in Air Traffic Management
Chen Xia, Faustino Tello Caballo, Milton Leonardo Aguilar Valarezo, Christian Eduardo Verdonk Gallego, and Quinten Goens
Automatic Identification of Airborne Hot Spots, and A First Intervention
Paul Eastham and Harper Mann
18:30 – 22:00 Conference Dinner, Rickmer Rickmers, Landungsbrücken, Ponton 1a, 20459 Hamburg, Germany
Friday, 08/11/2024
09:30 – 10:30
Session: Ground Operations and Trajectory Optimization Chair: Adan Vela
Enhancing Aircraft Ground Trajectories through Map-Matching and Stochastic Pavement Roughness Modeling
Martin Schlosser, Hannes Braßel, and Hartmut Fricke
Evaluating Potential Fuel Savings of Alternative Ground Propulsion Systems
Manuel Waltert, Benoit Figuet, and Michael Felux
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00
Session: Terminal Maneuvering Areas Chair: Xavier Olive
End-To-End Predict-Then-Optimize Framework for Aircraft Arrival Sequencing Problem in Terminal Maneuvering Area
Go Nam Lui and Soner Demirel
Testing Applicability of Point Merge Systems for Terminal Maneuvering Areas
Lucie Smetanova, Tatiana Polishchuk, and Henrik Hardell
12:00 – 12:30
"Spotlight" Session Chair: Michael Felux
Identification and Prediction of Holdings Using AI-based Methods for Traffic Management
Johannes P. Kleudgen and Dersim Kurun
Modeling and Forecasting GNSS Degradation within ADS-B Messages: Fishing in an Empty Pond?
Adan Vela
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30
Session: Machine Learning and Predictive Models in Air Traffic Chair: Martin Strohmeier
Training a Machine Learning Model to Detect Holding Patterns from ADS-B data
Xavier Olive, Luis Basora, Junzi Sun, and Enrico Spinielli
Data-Driven Prediction of Aircraft Holding Times Using OpenSky Data
Michele Vella, Jason Gauci, and Alexiei Dingli
14:30 – 15:00 EUROCONTROL PRC Data Challenge Enrico Spinielli
15:00 – 15:15 Closing remarks

About

Since its launch in 2013, the OpenSky Network has quickly evolved to a large-scale air traffic control data collection and sharing platform. With more than 5000 sensors registered across the globe and more than 50000 users, the OpenSky Network is greatly contributing towards the vision of a more efficient, secure, and reliable operation of the airspace by providing open accessibility of air traffic control data to the public.

Following the successful events in past years, we are proud to announce the 12th OpenSky Symposium. The two-day event will be hosted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in November 2024. Since its 8th iteration, the Symposium is also supported by the Performance Review Commission (PRC) of EUROCONTROL. The PRC aims to establish an Open Performance Data platform available in cooperation with Opensky Network and its community and will support the Symposium and some of the most relevant submissions. We encourage all submissions to consider the PRC research challenges outlined at the 11th Symposium on Safety (airspace complexity, flight interactions/separation), Environment (estimation of fuel burn/emissions), and System/Network Performance (traffic flow interdependencies).

The event is targeted at anyone interested in data-based aviation research. The Symposium will serve as a forum to discuss new ideas, the network itself, and research activities around OpenSky. Participants are invited to actively contribute to the program by presenting their projects at the Symposium. In the past years, the symposium attracted a diverse and interesting audience from research, authorities, and industry.

We are aiming for an in-person event to foster creative exchanges and discussions. There will be many opportunities to get to know the community during the social activities around the Symposium program.

The websites of previous workshops can be found here:

Submission Guidelines

Pre symposium: All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Authors whose abstracts are accepted by the programme committee will be given both the opportunity to submit a full paper and present at the symposium. Please note, at least one of the authors of a full paper must be on-site for presentation.

Post symposium: The submitted full papers will be peer-reviewed. The authors receive feedback and are asked to implement it accordingly. As soon as a full paper is accepted for publication by the programme committee, it will be published in the Journal of Open Aviation Science (JOAS) . The publication of final papers in the JOAS shall comply with its open data and reproducibility guidelines.

Templates

Abstracts and full papers should be prepared with the JOAS template (zip).
You can also use the online Overleaf template .

Abstracts

  1. DEADLINE:   September 06, 2024  September 13, 2024 (extended deadline)
  2. Requirement: Submissions describing the idea of the work and presentation for the symposium.
  3. Page limit: 1 to 2 pages
  4. Submission: EasyChair is used for collecting abstract, submit your abstract at:
    https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=opensky24

Selected Full Papers

Authors with accepted full papers are asked to use the following settings in their main latex file main.tex:

Line 2: manuscript=proceedings
Line 11: \conference{The 12th OpenSky Symposium}

  1. DEADLINE: November 01, 2024
  2. Requirement: Submissions describing and explaining the work in full detail, with a focus on open data and reproducibility.
  3. Page limit: 14 pages (without bibliography)
  4. Submission: The JOAS platform is used to collect full papers and provide further review comments. Submit your paper at https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/joas/about/submissions
    Create an account, log in, and select "OpenSky Symposium" in the Section dropdown menu.

Important Dates

Abstracts due September 06, 2024  September 13, 2024 (extended deadline)
Notification to authors September 27, 2024
Programme online October 04, 2024
Full papers due November 01, 2024
Symposium November 07/08, 2024

Organisers

Program Chair (correspondence) Manuel Waltert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
General Chairs Emy Arts (DLR, Germany)
Florian Raddatz (DLR, Germany)
Web Chair Martin Strohmeier (armasuisse, Switzerland)
Registration Chair Allan Tart (OpenSky Network, Switzerland)
Programme Committee Ramon Dalmau (EUROCONTROL, France)
Michael Felux (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Antonio Franco (University of Sevilla, Spain)
Rainer Kölle (EUROCONTROL, Belgium)
Alexander Lau (DLR, Germany)
Vincent Lenders (armasuisse, Switzerland)
Max Li (University of Michigan, USA)
David Lovell (University of Maryland, USA)
Ivan Martinovic (University of Oxford, UK)
Xavier Olive (ONERA, France)
Tatjana Polishchuk (Linköping University, Sweden)
Raul Saez (ENRI, Japan)
Matthias Schäfer (SeRo Systems, Germany)
Michael Schultz (Bundeswehr University, Germany)
Enrico Spinielli (EUROCONTROL, Belgium)
Martin Strohmeier (armasuisse, Switzerland)
Junzi Sun (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Allan Tart (OpenSky Network, Switzerland)
Christian Verdonk (CRIDA A.I.E., Spain)
Karim Zeghal (EUROCONTROL, France)
Yu Zhang (University of South Florida, USA)

Registration

The registration fees are:

Regular In-Person Attendance 400 Euros
Academics (please use an email with your affiliation) 300 Euros
Online Attendance 30 Euros

Registration for in-person attendance will only be possible until Wednesday 31st October EOB.

Venue

The Symposium will take place at the DLR Center for Applied Aviation Research (ZAL) at Hein-Saß-Weg 22 in Hamburg Finkenwerder, Germany. More detailed information about the location of the venue, parking, etc., can be found on the overview map.

Few important facts:

  • If you choose a hotel in Hamburg's Finkenwerder district, you'll find it conveniently close to the Symposium, yet somewhat distant from the city center of Hamburg. Some options for hotels in Finkenwerder are Rilano Hotel Hamburg or Hotel Elbinsel.
  • If you want to stay closer to the city center of Hamburg and rely on public transport, we recommend chosing a hotel close to the north shore of the Elbe river/harbour as you will need to cross the river by ferry (e.g., Landungsbrücken to Finkenwerder on ferry line 62 or Teufelsbrück to Finkenwerder on line 64) to reach the Symposium.
  • If you plan arrive by car, please be aware that traffic on highway 7 to cross the Elbe river can be very unpredictable. You can park your car at the ZAL parking garage at Hein-Saß-Weg 23.
  • The social event will take place at Rickmer Rickmers at Landungsbrücken, Ponton 1a.