EUROCONTROL
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Aeronautical Information Request Service 01.00.00
Abstract
The Aeronautical Information Request Service allows the service consumer to get aeronautical information concerning the actual and future infrastructure to be used by air traffic such as aerodromes, airspaces, navigation aids and ATS routes. The exact information needed by the service consumer can be specified in the request e.g. based on feature name or the location of the feature. The information returned is in the form of an AIXM 5.1.1 message.
Service Type
SWIM_DEFINITION
Business Activity Type
INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
Intended Consumer
AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIRPORT_OPERATOR
CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIRSPACE_USER
MILITARY_DEFENCE_CENTRE
NETWORK_MANAGER
PROVIDER_OF_DATA_SERVICES
Information Exchange Category
AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
Application Message Exchange Pattern Entity
Other
Provider
Point of Contact
General
Operational Needs
Air traffic management is defined by ICAO as the "dynamic, integrated management of air traffic and airspace including air traffic services, airspace management and air traffic flow management - safely, economically and efficiently - through the provision of facilities and seamless services in collaboration with all parties and involving airborne and ground-based functions".
Air traffic management needs high quality aeronautical data in order to operate. Data is required concerning the actual and future infrastructure to be used by air traffic such as aerodromes, airspaces, navigation aids and ATS routes.
The aeronautical data is also used in systems such as those used for surface management at aerodromes.
A list of operational needs that this service contributes to satisfying is available in Appendix C. This service satisfies these by offering aeronautical data as regulated by ICAO Annex 15 - Aeronautical Information Services.
The scope of the aeronautical data satisfies the EU Implementing Regulation 2021/116 - Common Project One.
IER 1 - AIP Data Exchange (A3SG-IER-01)
IER 2 - Aerodrome Mapping Data Exchange (A3SG-IER-07)
IER 3 - Obstacle Data Exchange (A3SG-IER-08)
Capabilities
The service provides high quality, up-to-date, trusted, regulated aeronautical data in digital form (features) for use in air traffic management systems and other systems. The data supports operational needs throughout the phases of flight (strategic, pre-tactical and tactical).
Functionality
The service consumer shall be able to request aeronautical information filtered by feature type and/or name.
The service consumer shall be able to request aeronautical information filtered according to spatial, temporal and logical operators.
It shall be possible to specify the type of time slice (according to the AIXM 5 temporality model) to receive.
Access and Use
The service may offer unauthenticated/public use.
If the use is authenticated, the service shall ensure consumer authentication in accordance with the EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile through the use of a X.509 certificate or the use of a username/password (SASL).
The service shall ensure provider authentication in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile through the use of a X.509 certificate.
The service shall ensure that satisfactory authorisation is put in place according to EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0070.
The service shall ensure point-to-point confidentiality in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 or above.
The service shall ensure point-to-point integrity in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 or above.
Quality of Service
The service shall achieve a quality that is sufficient to ensure the service is fit for purpose.
The service shall achieve a quality that is sufficient to ensure the service is fit for purpose.
The service shall achieve a quality that is sufficient to ensure the service is fit for purpose.
The service shall achieve a quality that is sufficient to ensure the service is fit for purpose.
The service shall ensure confidentiality by using SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile bindings.
The service shall ensure integrity by using SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile bindings.
Quality Of Data
The aeronautical data offered by the service shall satisfy the applicable sections of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 of 1 March 2017
The aeronautical data offered by the service shall apply the AIXM 5.1.1 coding guidelines. This includes:
- Common Coding Guidelines
- Technical Coding Guidelines
The aeronautical data offered by the service shall follow the supporting material for digital data sets. This includes:
- AIP Data Set Coding Guidelines
- Aerodrome Mapping Data Sets Supporting Material
- Obstacle Data Set Coding Guidelines
Validation
Abbreviations
Aeronautical Information Publication
Aeronautical Information Exchange Model
Air Traffic Management
Air Traffic Services
European Union
International Civil Aviation Organization
Open Geospatial Consortium
Simple Authentication Security Layer
Single European Sky ATM Research
System Wide Information Management
Technical Infrastructure
Transport Layer Security
Web Feature Service
Web Feature Service - Temporality Extension
Information
Information Definition
The service shall offer features defined in the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) 5.1.1.
Filtering
The service shall support the BBOX spatial operator defined in the OGC Filter Encoding 2.0 Encoding Standard.
The service shall support the During temporal operator defined in the OGC Filter Encoding 2.0 Encoding Standard.
The service should support other filtering based on the operators defined in the OGC Filter Encoding 2.0 Encoding Standard.
The temporal extension (WFS-TE) shall be used to support advanced temporal filtering.
As a minimum use case number 3 (Retrieve all time slices of a feature relevant for (i.e. affecting the state at) a point in time) defined in the temporal extension (WFS-TE) shall be supported.
The other uses cases defined in the temporal extension (WFS-TE) should be supported.
The service may support other filters on a case by case basis.
Example: other filters defined on a case by case basis are PARALLEL_TO and PERPENDICULAR_TO.
Source of Information
The service provider shall ensure that the aeronautical data offered by the services is received from the appropriate authorised originating sources. This includes:
- AIRPORT_OPERATOR
- CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- Government Agencies
- Owners of Obstacles
- AIRPORT_OPERATOR
- CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- Government Agencies
- Owners of Obstacles
Technical
Service Monitoring
A service monitoring mechanism shall be made available to service consumers.
Behaviour
The service behaviour shall be in accordance with the patterns detailed in the Message Exchange Patterns: Identification Guidelines. It allows for two implementations of the request-reply message exchange pattern: asynchronous and synchronous.
The OGC Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard shall be used for the basic behaviour.
The typical behaviour is as follows:
* Synchronous Request/Reply
- The request message is sent from the service consumer to the service
- The service consumer remains blocked while awaiting the reply
- The service remains blocked while processing the reply
- The AIXM Basic Message, the reply message, is sent from the service to the service consumer.
* Asynchronous Request/Reply
- The request message is sent from the service consumer to the service
- The AIXM Basic Message, the reply message, is sent from the service to the service consumer.
Interfaces
The interface is used to group the operations offered by the OGC Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard.
Operations
The GetFeature operation returns a selection of AIXM 5.1.1 features from a data store. It responds to a GetFeature Request message with an AIXM Basic Message that satisfies the query expressions specified in the request.
Idempotent
IDEMPOTENT
Operation Message
Service Interface Binding
EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile
- The OGC Web Feature Service 2.0 Interface Standard shall be used.
- The mandatory standardised operations for a Basic WFS shall be implemented.
- Support for spatial joins shall be implemented.
Network Interface Binding
The service shall use the network bindings of the SWIM TIYP.
Messages
References
Service Documents
Implemented Standards
Revision Save Date
Tue, 06/20/2023 - 16:40
Schema version
v2