Runway activity monitoring, logging and analysis for aircraft touchdown detection and abnormal behavior alerting

A computerized method of automatically documenting a plurality of aircraft touchdown events detected by analyzing sensory data received from a plurality of sensors, comprising:

• receiving sensory data from a plurality of sensors deployed to monitor at least part of a runway in an airport, said sensory data comprising at least one of:
• image data received from at least one image sensor, audio data received from at least one audio sensor and vibration data received from at least one vibration sensor;
• identifying a timing and a location of a landing touchdown event of an aircraft on said runway by analyzing said sensory data;
• and
• classifying said landing touchdown event as a normal landing touchdown event or an abnormal landing touchdown event based on said analysis.

A system of automatically documenting a plurality of aircraft activity events at a runway to detect hazardous conditions indicative of a potential abnormal phenomenon during at least one of said plurality of aircraft activity events, comprising:

• at least one interface for connecting to a plurality of sensors deployed to monitor at least part of a runway in an airport, said plurality of sensors comprising at least one of:
• an image sensor, an audio sensor and a vibration sensor;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to said at least one interface, said at least one processor is adapted to:
• receive sensory data from said plurality of sensors, said sensory data comprising at least one of:
• image data, audio data and vibration data,
• detect at least one hazardous condition indicative of a potential abnormal phenomenon during at least one of a plurality of aircraft activity events at said runway by analyzing said sensory data, and
• store at least part of said sensory data relating to said at least one hazardous condition.