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Solace Adds SWIM Data Archiving to Their Open Source Logic

In response to a community request, Solace recently updated their open source logic that allows consumers of the FAA’s System Wide Information System (SWIM) to archive data locally (or in the cloud) from the voluminous data feeds of available flight related data. This capability was the first open source contribution of its kind in the …

Data Munging of TBFM SWIM

The process of taking the raw Time-Based Flow Management SWIM data and transforming it into usable information for analytics is often a non-trivial process that involves multiple steps. As part of a Penn State data science effort, a github repository recently released python logic that is geared toward assisting in this effort. https://github.com/aviationds/tbfm_analysis The processing …

SWIM Jumpstart kit by L3Harris

L3 Harris has provided an open source JMS Consumer that allows for testing the connection to SWIM Cloud Distribution Service.  https://github.com/L3Harris/swim-jumpstart During the Febuary, 2020 SWIFT forum in the day 1 training session, L3Harris made the Enhanced Jumpstart Kit available for use by the community This also integrates with Mongo and PostgreSQL. See the jump …

FAA SWIM Data Acquisition from Solace

The developers at Solace just made connecting to FAA SWIM sources easier. Check out their github open source software here https://github.com/solacese/swim-feed-handler/blob/master/README.md . We downloaded this software and quickly changed the connection parameters to match those on the SWIM Cloud Distribution Service (SCDS https://scds.swim.faa.gov/) that were received after signing up for an account. Be sure to …