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Journal of the KSAS 2022; 50(1): 67-74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2022.50.1.67
Airspeed Estimation Through Integration of ADS-B, Wind, and Topology Data
ADS-B, 기상, 지형 데이터의 통합을 통한 대기속도 추정
H. J. Kim, B. S. Park, C. K. Ryoo and H. T. Lee
김효중, 박배선, 유창경, 이학태
Inha University
인하대학교
Abstract
To analyze the motion of aircraft through computing the dynamics equations, true airspeed is essential for obtaining aerodynamic loads. Although the airspeed is measured by on-board instruments such as pitot tubes, measurement data are difficult to obtain for commercial flights because they include sensitive data about the airline operations. One of the commonly available trajectory data, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data, provide aircraft's speed in the form of ground speed. The ground speed is a vector sum of the local wind velocity and the true airspeed. This paper present a method to estimate true airspeed by combining the trajectory, meteorological, and topology data available to the public. To integrate each data, we first matched the coordinate system and then unified the altitude reference to the mean sea level. We calculated the wind vector for all trajectory points by interpolating from the lower resolution grid of the meteorological data. Finally, we calculate the true airspeed from the ground speed and the wind vector. These processes were applied to several sample trajectories with corresponding meteorological data and the topology data, and the estimated true airspeeds are presented.
Keywords
ADS-B, LDAPS, DEM, TAS
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