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Data description paper
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06 Feb 2026
Data description paper |
| 06 Feb 2026
| 06 Feb 2026
GVCCS: a dataset for contrail identification and tracking on visible whole sky camera sequences
Gabriel Jarry
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
EUROCONTROL, Aviation Sustainability Unit (ASU), Aerodrome Centre Bois des Bordes, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, 91220, Essone, France
Ramon Dalmau
EUROCONTROL, Aviation Sustainability Unit (ASU), Aerodrome Centre Bois des Bordes, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, 91220, Essone, France
Philippe Very
EUROCONTROL, Aviation Sustainability Unit (ASU), Aerodrome Centre Bois des Bordes, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, 91220, Essone, France
Franck Ballerini
EUROCONTROL, Aviation Sustainability Unit (ASU), Aerodrome Centre Bois des Bordes, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, 91220, Essone, France
Stefania-Denisa Bocu
EUROCONTROL, Aviation Sustainability Unit (ASU), Aerodrome Centre Bois des Bordes, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, 91220, Essone, France
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Short summary
The Ground Visible Camera Contrail Sequences (GVCCS) dataset provides annotated video sequences of aircraft contrails recorded by a ground-based camera in the visible spectrum. Each contrail is segmented, tracked, and, where possible, attributed to individual flights. A baseline model based on panoptic segmentation is also provided to demonstrate instance-level detection. This dataset enables empirical analysis of contrail lifecycle and supports the validation and calibration of physical models.
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