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For astronauts and travelers in aircraft, space weather can quickly increase dose rates resulting from naturally occurring ionizing radiation by more than a 1000-fold. Historically, monitoring of these events has been done primarily by a combination of ground-based and satellite instrumentation. [...]

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Although pilots are often supported by signage, markings and lighting when taxiing on the airport surface, navigation and monitoring remain workload intense tasks even in good weather conditions. Radio communication is near capacity limits on many airports today resulting in waiting [...]

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Because of the key characteristics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), removal of pilot, UAVs will be highly suited for repetitive, dirty, and dangerous operations. A wide range of civil and military applications are being explored in the community (Clapper et al., 2007). As a result, [...]

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Part 2: Digital Society International audience This paper introduces aviation safety data analysis as an important application area for data mining. Safety is a key strategic management concern for safety-critical industries and management needs new, more efficient tools and methods [...]

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International audience; Preventing aircraft from getting too close to each other is an essential element of safety of the air transportation industry, which becomes ever more important as the air traffic increases. The problem consists in enforcing a minimum distance threshold between [...]

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Air transport delays have increased during the past decade both in Europe and US. The main reasons have been continuously growing air transport demand, constrained capacity of the system infrastructure, and disruption of services caused by bad weather, failures of the infrastructure [...]

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All radars are different (even if only due to the physical impacts of their operating locations) and creating a ‘rule of thumb’ for wind farm developments near all systems would require such a level of generalisation as to make it probably worthless. Therefore, in considering [...]

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Abstract\r Purpose\r To examine the role of new aeronautical technologies in improving commercial aviation’s environmental performance.\r \r \r Methodology/approach\r Reviews the environmental improvements that may be conferred through the adoption of alternative aviation fuels and [...]

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With the increase in air transport, the transport of animals has grown, too. According to the International Association for Transport Companies, more than 500,000 animals are transported by airlines annually. Problems are caused by inadequate cages, an absence of health certificates, [...]

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During the last three decades, aircraft cockpits have been highly automated and incrementally digitized to the point that we now talk about “interactive cockpits”, not because pilots interact with the mechanical part of the aircraft directly, but because they use a pointing device [...]