Aeronautical Data Validation Platform

Standard ATM formats for aeronautical, weather and flight data (AIXM, WXXM & FIXM) are becoming intensively used across all boundaries in the worldwide aviation data exchange process. In an operational context, data validation is essential as the precondition for safety, security and efficiency of operations.

Our award winning Aeronautical Data Validation Platform performs syntactic and semantic validation of aviation data to ensure aeronautical data quality. The validation results are available either in the web client or through the flexible API.

Use Cases

The data validation task is an important and integral part of the aeronautical information management domain:

Data Quality Assessment for Regional and Global Aviation Data Exchange
SWIM Enabled Collaborative Decision Making
Structural and Logical Data Consistency Check
Validation and Business Rules Enforcement in Aviation Workflows
Semantic Validation using Application Specific Business Rules (SBVR)

It can test the conformance to SWIM compatible aviation data formats but also evaluate more complex, semantic Business Rules beyond the structural correctness. Business rules are complex dependencies and domain specific requirements that must be satisfied by AIXM datasets. These rules cannot be expressed using XML Schema (XSD), but are encoded using the Schematron language and custom XPath function. The validator uses Schematron rules based on the rule set from the EUROCONTROL Business Rules community project.

The platform also allows users to create and manage their own domain specific rule sets. The validation results are available either in the validation web client or through the flexible REST API as structured result sets or as annotations, embedded in the input document.

Validation Platform Web Interface

Data validation is a cross cutting concern which affects many aviation workflows. Our validation platform contributes to the quality of aviation data by identifying and solving problems, which might occur when inaccurate, wrong formatted or syntactical or semantic incorrect information is consumed or provided by operational ATM services.

Business Benefits

In the context of data exchange, this service is the only guarantee that the data exchanged between regional SWIM domains remains correctly assessed and interpreted.

One-Stop-Shop for Aviation Data Quality Assessment
Support for Collaborative Decision Making
Increasing safety of ATM Systems through Improved Data Quality
Reducing ATM Costs through Scalable Cloud Service