Press Release - Immediate
Paris, France, September 29, 2023

ELDA releases air-traffic control data from ATCO2 Project

ELDA is pleased to announce the release of ATCO2 Project Data. ATCO2 project collected the real-time voice communication between air-traffic controllers and pilots available either directly through publicly accessible radio frequency channels or indirectly from air-navigation service providers (ANSPs). In addition to the voice communication data, contextual information is available in a form of metadata (i.e. surveillance data).

The dataset consists of two subsets:

• a corpus of more than 4000 hours with untranscribed data
• a corpus of 4 hours with transcribed data of air-traffic control speech collected across different airports (Sion, Bern, Zurich, etc.). Ca. 1 hour of annotation has followed a human re-checking.

The dataset can be found in the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources under the following links and references:

ATCO 2 Project Data, ISLRN: 589-403-577-685-7

For more information and/or questions, please write to contact@elda.org.

About ATCO2 project

ATCO2 project (Automated data collection and semi-supervised processing framework for deep learning) aims at developing a unique platform allowing to collect, organize and pre-process air-traffic control (voice communication) data from air space. It has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 864702. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Clean Sky 2 JU members other than the Union.

The following partners collaborated on this project:  IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland), Opensky Network (Switzerland), ELDA (France), ReplayWell (Czech Republic), Romagnatech (Italy), Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic).

To find out more about ATCO2 project, please visit: https://www.atco2.org/

About ELDA

The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and international projects in the field of HLT.

To find out more about ELDA, please visit our web site: http://www.elda.org/