skeyes - SIGMET (IWXXM) | SWIM Registry

Abstract

This service provides the latest SIGMET reports in IWXXM for the Belgian and Luxemburg airspace in compliance with ICAO Annex 3. Information can be retrieved by one of the following:Request /Reply via an EDR interface, whereby the reply contains the whole IWXXM datasetSubscription via AMQP 1.0 whereby the message contains the whole IWXXM dataset

Categorisation

Service Type

SERVICE_DESCRIPTION

Life Cycle Stage

OPERATIONAL

Business Activity Type

COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_SURVEILLANCE
AIRSPACE_ORGANISATION_AND_MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
SERVICE_DELIVERY_MANAGEMENT

Intended Consumer

AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIRPORT_OPERATOR
AIRSIDE_GROUND_HANDLER
CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIRSPACE_USER
PROVIDER_OF_DATA_SERVICES
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER

Information Exchange Category

METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
SWIM_INFRASTRUCTURE_EXCHANGE

Application Message Exchange Pattern

Request/Reply
Publish/Subscribe with Push Mechanism

Geospatial Categorisation Description

The dataset is valid for Belgium

Provider

SKEYES

Description

Skeyes is an autonomous public company in charge of the safety of air traffic in the civil airspace for which the Belgian State is responsible. Our company fulfils this mission while optimising costs and punctuality, increasing capacity and ensuring the sustainable development of air traffic. Skeyes provides all the essential services to manage and control the air traffic safely

We provide the following services:

ATM - Air traffic management and air traffic control
Technology : infrastructure and systems of ATM data processing, Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Meteo
AIM and Meteo : aeronautical information and meteorological information services

Type

AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER

Point of Contact

Restricted

Contact Information

Restricted

Name

Operational needs

Description

The service is provided in accordance with:

ICAO Annex 3, Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation, and the PANS-MET, Procedures for Air Navigation Services, Meteorology, Doc 10157, from November 2025
EU regulation 2021/116 (CP1), AF 5 System Wide Information management
EU regulation 2017/373 Annex V

Name

Information Exchange Requirements

Description

IER 1 - The information currently included in the SIGMET as defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373, ICAO Annex 3 Amdt 82 and PANS-MET.

Name

Capabilities

Description

The service provides high quality, up-to-date, trusted, regulated meteorological information in digital form for use by service consumers within the aviation domain.

Name

Distribute Data

Description

The service distributes the data according:

to the request
to the stored subscriptions and topic

Real World Effect

Information has been shared, the service consumer gets the requested data.

Name

Request Data

Description

The consumer is able to request the data provided by the service using the OGC EDR API.

Real World Effect

The consumer is able to filter data by aerodrome and gets the requested data.

Name

Subscribe to Data

Description

The user is able to subscribe to data via AMQPS, if already subscribed through the skeyes MET SWIM customer service.

Real World Effect

Subscription to a specific topic, hereby getting data every time there is new data available on this topic.

Performance

Performance

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Reliability

Reliability

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Security

Security

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Subscription

Consumers need to contact skeyes via the MET SWIM customer service
Encryption

Confidentiality and integrity is assured by point-to-point encryption in accordance with the SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile, through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 or above.
The certificate is provided by the EACP.
Authentication and authorization

The service ensures consumer authentication in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0042.
The service ensures provider authentication in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0042.
The service ensures that satisfactory authorisation is put in place according to EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0070.
Information Retainment

According to ICAO Annex 3 the meteorological information is retained for a period of at least 30 days from the date of issue. This relates to the information itself and not the request time of the customer.

Name

Customer Service

First point of contact related to the skeyes MET SWIM services for accessing the MET SWIM services

Contact Information

[email protected]

Type

SELF_VALIDATION

Validation Steps

The service has been tested by SKEYES

AIRM

ATM Information Reference Model
AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
ATC

Air Traffic Control
ATM

Air Traffic Management
EACP

European Aviation Common PKI
HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization
IER

Information Exchange Requirement
IR

Implementation Rules
ISRM

Information Service Reference Model
IWXXM

ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model
METAR

Meteorological Aerodrome Report
NWS

National Weather Service
OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium
PCP

Pilot Common Project
REQ

Requirement
WMO

World Meteorological Organization
SIGMET

significant meteorological phenomena
TAF

Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
AMO

Aerodrome Meteorological Office
AMS

Aeronautical Meteorological Station
EDR

Environmental Data Retrieval
MEP

Message Exchange Pattern
PANS-MET

ICAO Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Meteorology
TIYP

Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile
TI

Technical Infrastructure

Filtering Capabilities OGC EDR

The EDR implementation builds on MET3SG community MET SWIM OGC EDR GUIDANCE. Additionally it supports OGC EDR filtering machanisms: cube query using a bbox parameter, area query with a polygon specified in coords parameter, radius query.
Filtering Capabilities AMQP

Simple filtering is achieved using the topic structure of the broker, which determines the type of data recieved. AMQP SQL-like syntax for filters applied to AMQP application properties can be also used by the service consumer to further filter the data received.

The service provider ensures that the data offered within this service is created by SKEYES, a REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER.

https://airm.aero/developers/icao-wxxm-3.0.0-to-airm-1.0.0-index

Sign-up

A user has to sign up via the skeyes MET SWIM customer service:[email protected]
Integration pattern

Request/Reply = EDR API
Subscribe/Publish = AMQP
SSL Certificate

The user needs to have a valid SSL Certificate issued by a trusted Certificate Authority

Request/Reply

EDR Response codes

EDR Response code	Code Meaning	Impact and suggested actions
200 (OK)	The request is successful.	Expected behaviour, you can access the data.
302 (Found)	Redirect status response code indicating that the resource requested has been temporarily moved to the URL given by the Location header.	Expected behaviour for retrieving {itemId} payloads. Follow this redirect to pick up your payload.
401 (Unauthorized Request)	You are not authorised to access the service because our server requires user authentication.	You cannot access the data due to invalid authorisation. Please check that your authorisation token is valid and has not expired, and try again.
403 (Forbidden)	The request has been rejected because you do not have the rights to access or view the content.	You cannot access the data due to invalid authorisation. Please check that your authorisation token is valid and has not expired, and try again.
404 (Not Found)	The request is invalid.	You cannot access the data because your request is not formulated correctly. Please check the validity of your request against the SADIS API - User Guide, Section 2.2 and Chapter 4.
408 (Request Timeout)	The request you sent to the system took longer than the server was prepared to wait.	You cannot access the data. Please try again. It is very unlikely that you encounter this error code. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
500 (Internal Server)	While the request appears to be valid, the server failed to complete it.	You cannot access the data. Please try again. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
502 (Bad Gateway)	While the request appears to be valid, the server failed to complete it.	You cannot access the data. Please try again. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.
504 (Gateway Timeout)	While the request appears to be valid, the server failed to complete it.	You cannot access the data. Please try again. If the error persists, please contact our Support teams.

Subscription/Publish

more info here

<p>The SWIM infrastructure is monitored 24/7.</p>

OGC EDR Request Interface

Allows the service consumer to request the latest available SIGMET via OGC API - EDR.

PROVIDER_SIDE
- EDR operations
  
  OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard is used to implement the service operations.
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  Messages
  
  EDR Request
  
  IN
  
  EDR Reply
  
  OUT
Endpoints

Restricted
- SWIM_TI_YP_2_0_WS_LIGHT
  
  The WS Light Interface Binding as detailed in the EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile, edition 2.0.
- SWIM_TI_YP_2_0_IPV4_UNICAST
  
  Service supports IPv4 unicast.
- EDR Request
  
  Request message submitted to the EDR service containing query expressions for the EDR HTTP GET operation.
- EDR Reply
  
  The message that is an output of the EDR service.
AMQP Distribution Interface

Allows the service provider to distribute the latest available SIGMETs, meeting the need of the service consumer that has subscribed for updates.

PROVIDER_SIDE
- Publish
  
  The requested information is contained directly in the AMQP message
  
  git
  Messages
  
  AMQP Message
  
  OUT
Endpoints

Restricted
- SWIM_TI_YP_2_0_AMQP_MESSAGING
  
  The AMQP_MESSAGING Interface Binding as detailed in the EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile, edition 2.0
- SWIM_TI_YP_2_0_IPV4_UNICAST
  
  Service supports IPv4 unicast
- AMQP Message
  
  The message that is an output of the service, containing the SIGMET information

Title

EUROCONTROL SWIM-TI Yellow Profile

Standard Type

EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE

Conformance Statement

is compliant

Version

2.0

Title

EUROCONTROL SWIM Service Description

Standard Type

EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_SERVICE_DESCRIPTION

Conformance Statement

is compliant

Version

2.0

Description

Description of Service according to EUROCONTROL specifications

Title

Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR)

Standard Type

EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE

Conformance Statement

is conformant

Version

1.0

Description

Please see references to EDR website and specifications: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/edr/

Title

AMQP

Standard Type

EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE

Conformance Statement

is conformant

Version

true

Description

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

skeyes - SIGMET (IWXXM) v 1.0

Categorisation

Provider