System Wide Information Management for Heterogeneous Information Sharing and Interoperability

In order to achieve safe, secure, efficient and environmentally sustainable air traffic management at global, regional and local levels, the system-wide operational information exchange and life-cycle management technologies are required. The System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is to provide a collaborative air traffic management environment for system-wide interoperability and harmonization operation. However, according to current point-to-point communication, it is a challenge to construct a SWIM-based interoperability environment which allows the heterogeneous systems to cope with the full complexity of operational information exchanges. In this paper, based on a global demonstration, not only the technologies for information exchange but also the governance for information management between heterogeneous systems in the loosely coupled SWIM environment are analyzed and discussed.