Data Fusion Directions
Timely warnings to global aviation leaders about low-frequency, hard-to-identify safety threats soon will be routine, say leaders of the U.S. Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing Program (ASIAS).
ASIAS plans to share high-level hazards and trends — and to exchange parameters, aggregate data and analytical protocols such as database-fusion techniques — while CAST develops and refines safety enhancements, said Margaret Gilligan, briefing journalists in mid-June as government co-chair of CAST and the ASIAS executive board, along with Don Gunther, industry co-chair of CAST and the ASIAS executive board; and Jay Pardee, director of the FAA Office of Aviation Safety Analytical Services.
De-identified data archived from 7.2 million flights captured by flight operational quality assurance programs at 12 of 30 ASIAS-participating airlines now can be ma…
