Abstract: A variety of tasks conducted by aviation system decision makers and researchers requires analyzing aircraft trajectory data. Datasets containing high-frequency aircraft position information collected over large geographic areas and long periods of time are too large to store in the primary memory of personal computers. This paper introduces the use of statistical regular pavings as data structures capable of summarizing very large aircraft trajectory datasets. Recursively computable statistics can be stored for variable-sized regions of airspac...
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