The Aircraft Operations Lab had the privilege of actively contributing to SESAR Innovation Days 2024 (SIDs), one of Europe’s premier events dedicated to advancing aeronautical research. This year’s event provided an excellent platform to share our work, engage with the research community, and discuss innovative approaches to fostering sustainability in aviation.
Our participation included the following key contributions:
Project Posters
We showcased two impactful project posters, presenting advancements in exploratory research within the Aviation green deal flagship, which aligns to the European goal of creating the world’s first climate-neutral bloc by 2050:
- E-CONTRAIL: focusing on the latest results of the project, which is coordinated by the UC3M. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of the non-CO2 impact of aviation on global warming by developing artificial neural networks for the prediction of the climate impact of contrails and aviation-induced cloudiness.
- F4EClim: Highlighting the objectives of the project, led by DLR and aiming to address uncertainties tied to CO2, contrails, NOx induced changes in ozone/methane, and water vapor climate effects.
Paper Presentations
Two of our PhD students presented their pioneering research through paper presentations:
- Irene Ortiz: “Satellite-Based Quantification of Contrail Radiative Forcing over Europe: A Two-Week Analysis of Aviation-Induced Climate Effects” (E-CONTRAIL project).
- Fateme Baneshi: “Aircraft Trajectory Planning for Climate Hotspot Avoidance Considering Air Traffic Complexity: A Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach” (RefMap project).
The SESAR Innovation Days continue to be a cornerstone event for the Aircraft Operations Lab, since it provides a platform for exchanging ideas and showcasing the Lab’s work in the European ecosystem of aviation research.