Design and Implementation of Mobile Application for Real-time Monitoring of Weather-modification Aircraft Operations

The process of seeding by aircraft in weather modification requires real-time tracking of aircraft status, displaying, exchanging and sharing information between air and different airports on the ground. A real-time mobile application system named TEAM (plaTform of sEeding Aircraft Monitoring) is designed and implemented for weather-modification aircraft operations, which monitors, synchronizes and shares the flight's instant information and seeding operations of aircrafts in real time between different operating users in different locations. TEAM solves a series of key problems in the monitoring of weather-modification aircraft operations, such as various seeding information collection, transmission with diverse satellites, non-uniform standards, limited sharing ranges, and unsmooth communication between inside and outside aircrafts. In order to meet requirements of aircraft tracking, meteorological informatization collection and intensification, TEAM proposes a universal mobile application platform framework (RMPF-WMA, a real-time monitoring platform framework for weather-modification aircraft operations) for national weather-modification aircraft operations, which includes Inmarsat and Beidou satellite dual-link guaranteed transmission, the information security protection architecture, the hierarchy mode are used to solve the technical problems faced by both data background and front mobile client, and can be used as a universal standardized solution for real-time monitoring of mobile applications in weather-modification aircraft operations.Based on the RMPF-WMA framework and hybrid mobile application development technology, TEAM builds a mobile application that enable aircraft operations monitoring in real time and visual command synchronizing, visual display of preparation status, flight trajectory, seeding in clouds, summary reports and notifications after landing, and thus it improves the communication efficiency and information sharing of all relevant departments.The mobile application system is developed with Ionic/Angular JS application framework. It is also integrated with HTML5 hybrid development model to improve development efficiency and terminal performance. Ionic/Angular JS provides a set of rich interface components and mobile application development framework to help quickly realize human-computer interaction interface effects such as visual display and data linkage during all kinds of critical processes for aircraft operations, such as flight, detection, and seeding.At present, TEAM covers more than 80% of China's weather-modification aircraft real-time monitoring and operation information sharing, and is applied to the daily operation monitoring and major emergency service first-line command of the multi-regional aircraft in Northeast China, North China, Northwest China, Southwest China and Central China. The mobile application responds quickly, runs stably, the job monitoring and visualization works well. It provides a novel solution for real-time monitoring of aircraft in weather modification operations.