Winner of a 2005 R&D 100 Award

The Morning Report: Advanced Proactive Safety and System Monitoring

Overview The Morning Report
(5-minute movie/requires shockwave plug-in)

Description:
The Morning Report is a data-intensive airline safety and information tool that gives aviation personnel more insight than ever before into overall flight patterns and subtle flight characteristics. Using sophisticated multivariate statistical algorithms, the system analyzes massive amounts of data from thousands of airline flights overnight, generating an intuitively structured report every morning. The powerful algorithms that are the backbone of the analyses are combined with user-intuitive software to enable the user to drill down, and understand, the details underlying any portion of any flight. No currently available technology provides such ready access from the top level overview to the finest details of each flight.

Submitting Organizations and Developers:
Pacific Northwest National Laborary, Thomas A. Ferryman and Brett G. Amidan
NASA Ames Research Center, Irving C. Statler and Thomas R. Chidester
Flight Safety Consultants, Robert E. Lynch
ProWorks Corporation, Gary L. Prothero
Safe Flight, Robert E. Lawrence
Battelle Memorial Institute, Loren J. Rosenthal

Supporting Documentation:

• Overview (5-minute movie/requires shockwave plug-in) The Morning Report [Start Here!], PNWD-SA-7028.
• Amidan BG, and TA Ferryman. 2005. "Atypical Event and Typical Pattern Detection within Complex Systems." In 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference, art. no. 11.0701, pp. 1-12. IEEE Conference Publications, Manhattan Beach, CA. (Report, pdf).
• Ferryman TA, and BG Amidan. 2005. "Atypical Event and Typical Pattern Detection within Complex Systems." PNWD-SA-6865, Battelle—Pacific Northwest Division, Richland, WA. (Presentation, pdf).
• NASA Award for Group Achievement signed by then-NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin.
• Testimonial, Alaska Airlines signed by Dave Prewitt, Vice-President; Safety & Security.
• Testimonial: SAGEM Avionics, Inc. signed by Laurent Bloch, Director.
• Web site references:
  • http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/04_87AR.html
  • http://apms.arc.nasa.gov/
  • http://apms.arc.nasa.gov/approach.html
  • http://apms.arc.nasa.gov/benefits.html
  • http://www.flightzone.us/english/C_visualizza.asp?ID=30023
  • http://www.proworks.com/downloads/datasheets/APMS.pdf
  • http://calcutta.usconsulate.gov/wwwhpr91704i.html
  • http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20040917-08.html
  • http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/sep/HQ_04297_accident_prevention.txt
  • http://rutgersscholar.rutgers.edu/volume05/luxhoj-kauffeld/luxhoj-kauffeld.htm
  • http://www.grangier.fr/news/journal-2004-09-16.txt
  • http://www.aero-space.nasa.gov/aboutus/advisors/asrss/01_29_04/01_29_04.pdf
  • http://www.japa.or.jp/itjapa/magbbs/
  • http://www.infozine.net/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/3457/
  • http://www.spacebanter.com/showthread.php?t=40711
• NASA News Release, pdf
• NASA Web site – “APMS – Research Overview,” pdf
• NASA Web site – “APMS – Approach,” pdf
• NASA Web site – “APMS – Benefits,” pdf
• Flt Tech Online, pdf
• Flightzone, pdf
• Space Weekly, pdf

Patents:
NASA has submitted 3 patent applications to the U.S. Patent office for technology invented to support The Morning Report.

1. Identification of Atypical Flight Patterns, Ref. No. ARC-15041-1, filed 05/21/2004, Application Number 10/857,376
2. Information Display System for Atypical Flight Phase, Ref. No. ARC-15041-2, filed 08/13/2004, Application No. 10/923,156
3. Energy Index for Aircraft Maneuvers, Ref. No. ARC-15356-1, filed 9/22/2004, Application No. 10/956,523