Crowdsourced air traffic data from The OpenSky Network 2020
The data in this dataset is derived and cleaned from the full OpenSky dataset to illustrate the development of air traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic. It spans all flights seen by the network’s more than 2500 members since 1 January 2019. More data will be periodically included in the dataset until the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Variables:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| callsign | the identifier of the flight displayed on ATC screens (usually the first three letters are reserved for an airline: AFR for Air France, DLH for Lufthansa, etc.) |
| number | the commercial number of the flight, when available (the matching with the callsign comes from public open API) |
| aircraft_uid | a unique anonymised identifier for aircraft |
| typecode | the aircraft model type (when available) |
| origin | a four letter code for the origin airport of the flight (when available) |
| destination | a four letter code for the destination airport of the flight (when available) |
| firstseen | the UTC timestamp of the first message received by the OpenSky Network |
| lastseen | he UTC timestamp of the last message received by the OpenSky Network |
| day | the UTC day of the last message received by the OpenSky Network |
| latitude_1, longitude_1, altitude_1 | the first detected position of the aircraft |
| latitude_2, longitude_2, altitude_2 | the last detected position of the aircraft |
Publication Date:
2022
Creators:
Olive, Xavier; Strohmeier, Martin; Lübbe, Jannis
Publisher:
Zenodo
Size:
7.0 GB
Formats:
CSV
Data Category:
Technology and Cybersecurity