OpenSky Report 2022: Evaluating Aviation Emissions Using Crowdsourced Open Flight Data

Junzi Sun; Luis Basora; Xavier Olive; Martin Strohmeier; Matthias Schafer; Ivan Martinovic; Vincent Lenders

doi:10.1109/DASC55683.2022.9925852

OpenSky Report 2022: Evaluating Aviation Emissions Using Crowdsourced Open Flight Data

Junzi Sun, Luis Basora, Xavier Olive, Martin Strohmeier, Matthias Schafer, Ivan Martinovic, Vincent Lenders

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The environmental impact of aviation has become the focus of increased concerns for policymakers around the world. The recent pandemic provided many interesting case studies on the impact of aviation on the environment. Following the initial COVID-19 containment measures and hard lockdowns, the sharp decrease in aircraft movements caused a measurably improved air quality worthy of further study.The OpenSky Network has acted as an important open data source for aviation research since 2013. In this paper, we analyze one year of fine-grained pre-COVID air traffic trajectories (comprising the entire year 2018) to estimate fuel consumption and pollutant emissions in the aviation industry. We compare this large-scale big data processing approach to a reduced model approach based solely on global commercial aircraft movement schedules collected from airlines and airports, aggregated by a commercial provider.Our study quantifies the impact of commercial aviation on global emissions. The numbers reveal that aviation's CO₂ emissions contribute to 2% of global emissions and that commercial aviation contribution remains a proxy for countries' wealth.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2022 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665486071
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC55683.2022.9925852
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	41st IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2022 - Portsmouth, United States Duration: 18 Sep 2022 → 22 Sep 2022

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Name	AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings
Volume	2022-September
ISSN (Print)	2155-7195
ISSN (Electronic)	2155-7209

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Conference	41st IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portsmouth
Period	18/09/22 → 22/09/22

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Sun, J., Basora, L., Olive, X., Strohmeier, M., Schafer, M., Martinovic, I., & Lenders, V. (2022). OpenSky Report 2022: Evaluating Aviation Emissions Using Crowdsourced Open Flight Data. In 2022 IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2022 - Proceedings (AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings; Vol. 2022-September). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC55683.2022.9925852

Sun, Junzi ; Basora, Luis ; Olive, Xavier ; Strohmeier, Martin ; Schafer, Matthias ; Martinovic, Ivan ; Lenders, Vincent. / OpenSky Report 2022 : Evaluating Aviation Emissions Using Crowdsourced Open Flight Data. 2022 IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2022 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022. (AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings).

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OpenSky Report 2022 : Evaluating Aviation Emissions Using Crowdsourced Open Flight Data. / Sun, Junzi; Basora, Luis; Olive, Xavier; Strohmeier, Martin; Schafer, Matthias; Martinovic, Ivan; Lenders, Vincent.

2022 IEEE/AIAA 41st Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC 2022 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022. (AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings; Vol. 2022-September).

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