# Presentation: 776788

## The eALP Project...

**The eALP Project...**

**An FAA Airports Initiative**

**This is an overview of an initiative by the FAA Office of the Associate Administrator for Airports (ARP).  It is a partnership with FAA Aviation Systems Standards (AVN); the Office of Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance Systems (AND); and industry.**

**Airport Layout Plans (ALP) are required by the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). ****ALP’s are the graphic representation of current and future airport development as formally adopted by the sponsor and approved by FAA.**** ****Each airport must maintain a current ALP. **

**What if...FAA could capture important information from the ALP and make it available electronically for whoever needs it?**

**Notes:**
This is a high level overview of an FAA Airports initiative to standardize and share the information that is generated by Airport Layout Plans (ALP).  

The ALP is a document that is required by the Airport Improvement Program (AIP).  A current, FAA approved ALP  is required by 49 USC 47107(a)(16).   It identifies projects that are eligible for AIP grants and must be kept up to date as a condition of the grant

## Goals and Objectives

**Build a data warehouse to store airports-related *****spatial***** data that FAA needs to do its job(s)**
**Define a data standard to facilitate the transfer of data to and from the data warehouse.  Maintain compatibility with industry standards:**
**FAA Specification 405**
**RTCA DO-272 and DO-276**
**AirMAT Model (BTS)**
**CADD/GIS Technology Center SDSFIE (ANSI Standard NCITS 353)**
**Provide a web-based interface connection for FAA and other agencies (public, airports, consultants etc...)**
**Collect data from airport sponsors in connection with Airport Layout Plan development and other sources**

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## Why Use Spatial Data?

**Most of the information FAA and airport planners, developers, and operators use is location-based**
**it can be drawn on a map **
**it is located in 3-dimensional space  **
**Spatial data adds geographic intelligence to traditional text-based systems to facilitate:**
**user requests**
**geographic queries and analysis**
**Production of intuitive graphics that provide a complete picture of the airport environment**

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## For Example...

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## Uses and Users

| 
Uses | Users |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | ARP | ATS | AVN | SF 21 | Airports |
| Project Coordination* | X | X |  |  | X |
| Environmental Analysis* | X |  |  |  | X |
| Obstruction Analysis* | X | X |  |  | X |
| Approach Procedures | X |  | X |  | X |
| Airport Design | X |  |  |  | X |
| Moving Maps |  |  |  | X | X |
| Ground Transportation* |  |  |  |  | X |
| Land Use* | X |  |  |  | X |
| Noise Monitoring* |  |  |  |  | X |
| Property Management* | X |  |  |  | X |

- *Needs identified by  airport sponsors in a recent DOT-funded study

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## Benefits

**Eliminates multiple and redundant data collection (surveys) and database elements**
**Leverages AIP expenditures for the benefit of FAA and the aviation industry**
**Provides base-map functionality for:**
**ALPs, **
**Obstruction Charts, **
**Construction plans, and **
**Other airport mapping products **
**Improves communication, coordination, and decisions**

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## eALP Process

**eALP**

**Remote Sensing**

**Ground Surveys**

**Validation**

** ****Delineate Features**

**eALP**

**eALP**

**Mission Critical Data**

**Analysis**

- Airport

- FAA

- End User

**Add Attributes**

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## The Schedule

**The Schedule**

_**Milestones**_
**FY 2004**
**Field Survey Data Logger**
**Draft Data Standard**
**FY 2005**
**Publish Data Std **
**	****Advisory Circular – Airport Layout Daya Standards **
**	****Replaces AC 150/5300-13, Appendix 15**
**Pilot Phase **
**Basic System**
**Few Airports**
**Outsource Surveys**
**FY 2006**
**Production Phase**
**Available for all airports**

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## The Team

**Matt Burton, AVN-40**
**eALP Project Lead**
**matthew.C-CTR.Burton@faa.gov**

**Ken Jacobs, AAS-100**
**Data Standards**
**ken.jacobs@faa.gov**

**Bob Bonanni, AAS-100**
**Field Surveys**
**robert.bonanni@faa.gov**

**Jeff Hagan, NGS**
**Data Validation**
**jeff.hagan@noaa.gov**

**Randy Murphy, ****G****rafton ****T****echnologies**
**Industry Advisor**
**RMurphy@GraftonTech.com**

**Dave Peterson, AND-720**
**PT, Navigation Systems  **
**dave.peterson@faa.gov**

- Current team members represent a diversity of functional responsibilities.  The initial work supports development of GPS-based approach procedures.  Additional team members can and will be added as system capabilities expand.

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