Published 2022 | Version v3

Crowdsourced air traffic data from The OpenSky Network 2020

Description

Description

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.

Files

flightlist_20190101_20190131.csv__100lines.csv

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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

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title Crowdsourced air traffic data from The OpenSky Network 2020
Creators
  • Olive, Xavier
  • Strohmeier, Martin
  • Lübbe, Jannis
  • Size 7.0 GB
    Formats Comma-separated values (CSV) (.csv)
    License(s) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
    External Resource https://zenodo.org/records/5815448