Concepts and technologies described herein provide for the detection of aircraft contrails through the identification of contrail shadows in real time imagery provided during a flight. According to one aspect of the disclosure provided herein, an antisolar point is located on a surface from the perspective of the aircraft in flight. Real time imagery encompassing the antisolar point is received and analyzed for a contrail indicator. When the contrail indicator is detected, it is determined that the aircraft is creating a contrail.
Aircraft contrail detection
2016-04-12
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Assessment of Aircraft Contrail Avoidance Strategies
AIAA | 2015
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