PLANET-2: Providing in-flight weather services and observations to and from business and regional aircraft

PLANET-2 aligns as far as practicable to the WXXM standard, as aligned with SESAR and NextGen. Atmosphere developed dedicated compression algorithm. 10 to 100 compression ration compared to the original XML file, allowing very efficient transport of large XML WXXM data over Iridium SBD service. Future integration of PLANET-2 services: enable SWIM-compliant weather service. Atmosphere and TriaGnoSys participated in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services initiative. Implemented a Data Management Service (DMS) for aircraft access to SWIM. DMS provides reliable and efficient communications between aircraft client and ground services. DMS uses SOAP and HTTP to communicate with SWIM-like web services (Web Feature Service (WFS), Event Service (ES)), supports the delivery of AIXM, WXXM and digital NOTAM. DMS and aircraft client use WS-ReliableMessaging and FastInfoset compression DMS supports request-response and publish-subscribe (implemented using WS-BaseNotification standard).