Automated Image-Based Aircraft Tracking and Record-Keeping for Utah Airports

Airport operational data is necessary for aviation decision-makers to quantitatively prepare airport master plans and fairly distribute national funds throughout the country. These data have other important applications, such as safety and security applications as well. Interestingly, most airports (i.e., typically general aviation airports) do not have control towers or staff to document the aircraft operations in their airport. That considered, many attempts have been made to automatically record the operations using radio, acoustics, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) technologies. While these methods come with some advantages, they cannot accurately monitor aircraft operations at non-towered airports due to technological and commercial shortcomings. Therefore, this project attempts to develop intelligent cameras for performing operation count and recognition by using machine learning techniques. The proposed method addresses the issues that are existed with the other methods. A camera system is a passive system that does not require cooperative aircraft. Moreover, the authors' data analysis has shown that the proposed vision-based system holds the promise of an accurate system regarding both counting and recognizing the aircraft operations at non-towered airports during the busy traffic times in those airports.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=1096
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/64432
• Summary URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67971
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Utah, Salt Lake City

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Salt Lake City, UT  United States 

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Utah Department of Transportation

  Salt Lake City, UT  United States 
• Authors:
  • Farhadmanesh, Mohammad
  • Rashidi, Abbas
  • Marković, Nikola
• Publication Date: 2022-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 52p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Airport operations; Computer vision; Recordkeeping; Traffic surveillance; Vehicle detectors; Video
• Geographic Terms: Utah
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01861035
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC 22-476
• Contract Numbers: MPC-639
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 13 2022 9:26AM