Fig. 2: GOES-16 satellite perspective of original and wind-advected flight paths, with contrail detections.
From: Feasibility test of per-flight contrail avoidance in commercial aviation
Example of one frame of the GOES-16 satellite imagery sequence over the Gulf Coast area. This was used for labeling whether American Airlines flight 189 created a detectable contrail. Thick lines show the original flight path and wind-advected flight trajectory, along with contrails detected by the computer vision system21. Other advected flight paths have a variety of lighter colors on thinner lines. In this case the alignment between the advected flight path and the observed contrail led the evaluators to conclude that this flight made a detectable contrail.
