Runway visual range prediction using Convolutional Neural Network with Weather information

SungKwan Ku,Seungsu Kim,Seokmin Hong 국제문화기술진흥원 2018 International Journal of Advanced Culture Technolo Vol.6 No.4

The runway visual range is one of the important factors that decide the possibility of taking offs and landings of the airplane at local airports. The runway visual range is affected by weather conditions like fog, wind, etc. The pilots and aviation related workers check a local weather forecast such as runway visual range for safe flight. However there are several local airfields at which no other forecasting functions are provided due to realistic problems like the deterioration, breakdown, expensive purchasing cost of the measurement equipment. To this end, this study proposes a prediction model of runway visual range for a local airport by applying convolutional neural network that has been most commonly used for image/video recognition, image classification, natural language processing and so on to the prediction of runway visual range. For constituting the prediction model, we use the previous time series data of wind speed, humidity, temperature and runway visibility. This paper shows the usefulness of the proposed prediction model of runway visual range by comparing with the measured data..

Runway visual range prediction using Convolutional Neural Network with Weather information

Ku, SungKwan,Kim, Seungsu,Hong, Seokmin The International Promotion Agency of Culture Tech 2018 International Journal of Advanced Culture Technolo Vol.6 No.4

The runway visual range is one of the important factors that decide the possibility of taking offs and landings of the airplane at local airports. The runway visual range is affected by weather conditions like fog, wind, etc. The pilots and aviation related workers check a local weather forecast such as runway visual range for safe flight. However there are several local airfields at which no other forecasting functions are provided due to realistic problems like the deterioration, breakdown, expensive purchasing cost of the measurement equipment. To this end, this study proposes a prediction model of runway visual range for a local airport by applying convolutional neural network that has been most commonly used for image/video recognition, image classification, natural language processing and so on to the prediction of runway visual range. For constituting the prediction model, we use the previous time series data of wind speed, humidity, temperature and runway visibility. This paper shows the usefulness of the proposed prediction model of runway visual range by comparing with the measured data.

Runway visual range prediction using Convolutional Neural Network with Weather information

구성관,김승수,홍석민 국제문화기술진흥원 2018 International Journal of Advanced Culture Technolo Vol.6 No.4

The runway visual range is one of the important factors that decide the possibility of taking offs and landings of the airplane at local airports. The runway visual range is affected by weather conditions like fog, wind, etc. The pilots and aviation related workers check a local weather forecast such as runway visual range for safe flight. However there are several local airfields at which no other forecasting functions are provided due to realistic problems like the deterioration, breakdown, expensive purchasing cost of the measurement equipment. To this end, this study proposes a prediction model of runway visual range for a local airport by applying convolutional neural network that has been most commonly used for image/video recognition, image classification, natural language processing and so on to the prediction of runway visual range. For constituting the prediction model, we use the previous time series data of wind speed, humidity, temperature and runway visibility. This paper shows the usefulness of the proposed prediction model of runway visual range by comparing with the measured data.

심층신경망을 활용한 활주로 가시거리 예측 모델 개발

구성관,홍석민,Ku, SungKwan,Hong, SeokMin 한국항행학회 2017 韓國航行學會論文誌 Vol.21 No.5

안개 등의 영향을 받는 활주로 시정은 비행장에서 항공기 이착륙의 가능 여부를 결정하는 주요 지표중 하나이다. 운송용 항공기가 운항되는 공항의 경우 활주로 시정을 포함한 주요 국지 기상 예보를 시행하며, 이를 항공종사자가 확인할 수 있도록 하고 있다. 본 논문은 최근 영상 처리, 음성 인식, 자연어 처리 등의 다양한 분야에 적용되고 있는 심층신경망을 활주로 시정 예측에 적용하여 국지 비행장의 활주로 시정 예측 모델을 개발하고 이를 활용한 예측을 수행하였다. 적용 대상 비행장의 과거 실제 기상 관측 값을 활용하여 신경망 학습 후 시정에 대한 예측을 수행하였고, 기존 관측 데이터와 비교한 결과 비교적 정확한 예측 결과를 확인하였다. 또한 개발된 모델은 별도의 예보 기능이 없는 해당 비행장에서 참고할 수 있는 기상정보를 생성하는데 사용될 수 있을 것이다. The runway visual range affected by fog and so on is one of the important indicators to determine whether aircraft can take off and land at the airport or not. In the case of airports where transportation airplanes are operated, major weather forecasts including the runway visual range for local area have been released and provided to aviation workers for recognizing that. This paper proposes a runway visual range estimation model with a deep neural network applied recently to various fields such as image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, etc. It is developed and implemented for estimating a runway visual range of local airport with a deep neural network. It utilizes the past actual weather observation data of the applied airfield for constituting the learning of the neural network. It can show comparatively the accurate estimation result when it compares the results with the existing observation data. The proposed model can be used to generate weather information on the airfield for which no other forecasting function is available.

심층신경망을 이용한 활주로 가시거리 예측 모델의 고도화

구성관,박창환,홍석민 한국항행학회 2018 韓國航行學會論文誌 Vol.22 No.6

항공기 이착륙 유무의 중요한 지표 중 하나인 활주로 가시거리는 기온, 습도 등과 같은 기상 조건에 영향을 받는다. 비행장의 활주로 이용 시 도착 시점에서의 활주로 가시거리를 예측하는 것은 항공기 이용의 효율성에서 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 활주로 가시거리를 예측하기 위해 기존에 제안된 심층 신경망을 활용한 활주로 가시거리 예측 모델의 고도화를 통해 1시간 이후의 국지 비행장의 활주로 가시거리를 예측하였다. 이를 위해 예측 모델의 고도화는 입력 값으로 기상 정보(기온, 습도, 풍속, 활주로 가시거리)에 대한 시간 간격 변화와 예측 값의 선형 변환을 통해 진행하였다. 제안된 방법은 과거 기상 관측 값을 바탕으로 예측 모델의 학습을 생성해 1시간 이후의 활주로 가시거리에 대한 예측을 수행하였고, 1시간 이후의 측정된 활주로 가시거리와 비교를 통해 타당성을 확인했다. 제안된 예측 모델은 예보를 제공해주지 않는 지역의 소규모 비행장에서 참고할 수 있는 활주로 가시거리 생성에 활용 할 수 있을 것이다. Runway visual range (RVR), one of the important indicators of aircraft takeoff and landing, is affected by meteorological conditions such as temperature, humidity, etc. It is important to estimate the RVR at the time of arrival in advance. This study estimated the RVR of the local airport after 1 hour by upgrading the RVR estimation model using the proposed deep learning network. To this end, the advancement of the estimation model was carried out by changing the time interval of the meteorological data (temperature, humidity, wind speed, RVR) as input value and the linear conversion of the results. The proposed method generates estimation model based on the past measured meteorological data and estimates the RVR after 1 hour and confirms its validity by comparing with measured RVR after 1 hour. The proposed estimation model could be used for the RVR after 1hour as reference in small airports in regions which do not forecast the RVR.

F급 항공기 교체공항 선정을 위한 기상분석

김영철 ( Y C Kim ),김도현 ( Do Hyun Kim ) 한국항공운항학회 2012 한국항공운항학회지 Vol.20 No.4

This paper is part of the research about the selection and justification of Jeju international airport as an aircraft category ``F`` alternative airport, which is the results of an weather analysis based on meteorological statistics. As the results of the study, it has been only 1 day per year (58minutes) that weather conditions of Incheon and Jeju international airports, from January 2006 to June 2011, are below landing weather minimums of each airport at the same times. This means that these airports are not within the same meteorological region, which is against the current orthodoxy. In addition, it is very rare that weather conditions of Jeju international airports are below landing weather minimums when Incheon international airport is below landing weather minima. It shows that the meteorological characteristics of these regions differ widely and the designation of Jeju international airport as an alternative airport is scientifically reasonable.