Aircraft touch-and-go detection

A method comprising:

• receiving, at one or more processors, airport runway geospatial data indicating a geospatial area associated with an airport runway and an altitude associated with the airport runway;
• receiving aircraft location data associated with an aircraft, the aircraft location data indicating a position of the aircraft at different times and an altitude of the aircraft at different times;
• identifying a time window when the aircraft is continuously in motion and located over the geospatial area associated with the airport runway;
• and
• during the time window:
• determining whether a first condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is satisfied if there is a first time period when the aircraft is airborne and the altitude of the aircraft is decreasing;
• determining whether a second condition is satisfied, wherein the second condition is satisfied if there is a second time period when the aircraft is in contact with the airport runway, the second time period following the first time period;
• and
• determining whether a third condition is satisfied, wherein the third condition is satisfied if there is a third time period when the aircraft is airborne and the altitude of the aircraft is increasing, the third time period following the second time period;
• determining whether the aircraft performed a touch-and-go operation on the airport runway based on the airport runway geospatial data and the aircraft location data, wherein the touch-and-go operation includes the aircraft contacting the airport runway and subsequently taking off from the airport runway without stopping, wherein the aircraft is determined to have failed to perform the touch-and-go operation in response to a determination that, during the time window, the third condition is not satisfied;
• and
• generating a notification in response to a determination that the aircraft performed the touch-and-go operation.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• receive airport runway geospatial data indicating a geospatial area associated with an airport runway and an altitude associated with the airport runway;
• receive aircraft location data associated with an aircraft, the aircraft location data indicating a position of the aircraft at different times and an altitude of the aircraft at different times;
• identify a time window when the aircraft is continuously in motion and located over the geospatial area associated with the airport runway;
• and
• during the time window:
• determine whether a first condition is satisfied, wherein the first condition is satisfied if there is a first time period when the aircraft is airborne and the altitude of the aircraft is decreasing;
• determine whether a second condition is satisfied, wherein the second condition is satisfied if there is a second time period when the aircraft is in contact with the airport runway, the second time period following the first time period;
• determine whether a third condition is satisfied, wherein the third condition is satisfied if there is a third time period when the aircraft is airborne and the altitude of the aircraft is increasing, the third time period following the second time period;
• determine whether the aircraft performed a touch-and-go operation on the airport runway based on the airport runway geospatial data and the aircraft location data, wherein the touch-and-go operation includes the aircraft contacting the airport runway and subsequently taking off from the airport runway without stopping, wherein the aircraft is determined to have failed to perform the touch-and-go operation in response to a determination that, during the time window, the third condition is not satisfied;
• and
• generate a notification in response to a determination that the aircraft performed the touch-and-go operation.