Plane in the sky

On clear or partly sunny days, people might look up at the sky and see straight lines of what appear to be clouds or white smoke. These lines are not smoke or natural clouds; they are contrails produced by aircraft. Contrails form because water vapor from jet engine exhaust passes through a cold and humid part of the air at high altitudes. Sometimes the jet that created the contrails is not visible overhead because winds aloft have blown the vapor trail into the observed area after the jet has passed. Naturally occurring high thin cirrus clouds do not form straight lines, they are more diffuse and irregular in shape than a contrail. Can an app be developed to help a ground observer determine the probability that an aircraft made the thin lines of white 'clouds' overhead?

Plane in the sky - Space App Project aims to help NASA to teach the IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence to distinguish the natural clouds from the contrails produced by aircraft by using Alchemy Vision API and Bluemix Cloud Platform.

IBM Bluemix

Alchemy Vision

IBM DevOps Services

Based on Sample Open Source Node.js Demo Application

for the IBM Watson Visual Recognition Service !