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Hi Adam, |
Call for Participation |
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The OpenSky Network Association is pleased to announce the 14th OpenSky Symposium and invites everyone to participate. Due to great demand, the deadline has been extended by one week.
Date: October 29/30, 2026 |
Further important dates
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Scope and OverviewSince its launch in 2013, the OpenSky Network has quickly evolved into a large-scale air traffic control data collection and sharing platform. With more than 8,000 sensors registered across the globe and more than 100,000 users, the OpenSky Network is greatly contributing towards the vision of a more efficient, secure, and reliable operation of the airspace by providing open accessibility of air traffic control data to the public. Following the successful events in past years, we are proud to announce the 14th OpenSky Symposium. The two-day event will be hosted by CRIDA on their Campus in Madrid in October 2026. Since its 8th iteration, the Symposium is also supported by the Performance Review Commission (PRC) of EUROCONTROL. The PRC aims to establish an Open Performance Data platform available in cooperation with OpenSky Network and its community and will support the Symposium and some of the most relevant submissions. We encourage all submissions to consider the PRC research challenges outlined at previous Symposia on Safety (airspace complexity, flight interactions/separation), Environment (estimation of fuel burn/emissions), and System/Network Performance (traffic flow interdependencies). The event is targeted at anyone interested in data-based aviation research and the wider community of ADS-B and other aviation data collection. The Symposium will serve as a forum to discuss new ideas, the network itself, and research activities around OpenSky. Participants are invited to actively contribute to the program by presenting their projects at the Symposium. In the past years, the symposium attracted a diverse and interesting audience from research, authorities, and industry. New this year, we will also explicitly consider talks by relevant industry and community contributors in the program without the need to submit a full research paper (the abstract submission dates and guidelines apply to these talks, too). The OpenSky Symposium is fundamentally an in-person event to foster creative exchanges and discussions. There will be many opportunities to get to know the community during the social activities around the Symposium program. |
Call for Presentations and PapersAs every year, the Symposium invites presentations from the community, not limited to academia. The symposium is interested in both papers and presentations that:
As an increasingly selective venue, the OpenSky Symposium welcomes original contributions. The submitted papers may partially overlap with other submissions to journals or conferences, but there must be an additional contribution that is original and has not been presented yet (e.g., new data analysis, description of a novel application, extension of existing work, etc.). The papers are welcome to depict images, graphs, and data that are part of the presentations. The paper submission process provides a means to incorporate reviewer feedback, an opportunity for timestamping work in progress, and can be used as a reference point. The program committee may invite cutting-edge talk-only submissions but all submissions with accompanying papers will be given preferential treatment in the selection process. We will also consider alternative arrangements such as poster sessions as in previous years to bring as much of the community together as possible. The OpenSky Symposium 2026 proceedings will be published in the Journal of Open Aviation Science open-access journal. |
Submission GuidelinesPre symposium: All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Authors whose abstracts are accepted by the programme committee will be given both the opportunity to submit a full paper and present at the symposium. Please note, at least one of the authors of a full paper must be on-site for presentation. Post symposium: The submitted full papers will be peer-reviewed. The authors receive feedback and are asked to implement it accordingly. As soon as a full paper is accepted for publication by the programme committee, it will be published in the Journal of Open Aviation Science (JOAS). The publication of final papers in the JOAS shall comply with its open data and reproducibility guidelines. |
Organizers
Program Chair: Richard Alligier (ENAC, France) Program Committee:
Yutong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
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