openSkiesStateVector: An 'R6Class' object representing an aircraft state vector
In openSkies: Retrieval, Analysis and Visualization of Air Traffic Data

Description Usage Fields Examples

R6Class object representing an aircraft state vector. Contains information about status at a given timepoint of an aircraft, including its position, altitude and velocity. New instances can be manually created by providing values for at least the ICAO24, longitude and latitude fields. Alternatively, getSingleTimeStateVectors will return an openSkiesStateVector object if a single state vector matching the query conditions is found.

1	openSkiesStateVector

ICAO24: String with the ICAO 24-bit aicraft address associated to the aircraft in hexadecimal format
call_sign: String with the callsign assigned to the aircraft
origin_country: String with the country where the aircraft is registered
requested_time: String with the time point for which the state vector was requested
last_position_update_time: String with the time at which the last position update for the aircraft was received, or NULL if no position update had been received in the past 15 s
last_any_update_time: String with the time at which the last update (of any type) for the aircraft was received
longitude: Longitude value for the position of the aircraft
latitude: Latitude value for the position of the aircraft
baro_altitude: Barometric altitude of the aircraft in meters
geo_altitude: Geometric altitude of the aircraft in meters
on_ground: Logical indicating if the aircraft is at a surface position
velocity: velocity of the aircraft over the ground in meters/second
true_track: True track angle in degrees of the current aircraft course. Measured clockwise from the North (0º)
vertical_rate: Vertical movement rate of the aircraft in meters/second. Positive means the aircraft is climbing, and negative means it is descending
squawk: String with the squawk code for the aircraft transponder
special_purpose_indicator: Logical indicating if the transponder of the aircraft has emitted a Special Purpose Indicator pulse
position_source: String with the source of the position information for this state vector. Can be ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast), ASTERIX (All Purpose Structured Eurocontrol Surveillance Information Exchange) or MLA (Multilateration)

# Obtain the state vector for aircraft with ICAO 24-bit address 403003 for
# the 8th of October, 2020 at 16:50 London time.

if(interactive()){
test_stateVector <- getSingleTimeStateVectors(aircraft="403003", 
time="2020-10-08 16:50:00", timeZone="Europe/London")
test_stateVector
}