About Us
We Have Been Developing Airport Digital Twins for Three Decades
An Airport Digital Twin is an integrated correlation and visualization of information from multiple airport systems, empowering airport owners to improve their business enterprise management. AirportDigitalTwin.org is an expanding consortium of complementary, best-of-breed, solution providers, that achieve practical and sustainable Digital Twin capabilities for airport owners. We bring the airport owner a comprehensive, evolving, state-of-the-art toolbox.
Our team brings together airport focused professionals, who have been developing digital twins for airport owners over the past three decades. Our experts bring the airport owner's perspective, as well as proven airport industry-leading technologies.
We help airport owners achieve realistic sustainable digital twin solutions, that are driven by business process needs, rather than by technological eye candy that end-up outdated on the shelf. We recognize that the airport business enterprise requires cost effective solutions, which can be sustained by the airport's prioritized resources.
Airport Digital Transformation Experts
David Tamir
Dr. Prasad Chittaluru
Dr. Prasad Chittaluru
Brings 4 decades of systems engineering and business process improvement experience from the Space Shuttle Program and over 30 airports. Learned the airport owner's perspective during his initiation into the airport industry, as the technology applications manager for Orlando International Airport. Assembled and led the AAAE Airport Digi
Brings 4 decades of systems engineering and business process improvement experience from the Space Shuttle Program and over 30 airports. Learned the airport owner's perspective during his initiation into the airport industry, as the technology applications manager for Orlando International Airport. Assembled and led the AAAE Airport Digital Twin Working Group in development of the Digital Twin Roadmap for Airport Owners. Founder and Lead Director of the AirportDigitalTwin.org consortium, helping airport owners succeed in implementing and sustaining airport digital twin capabilities.
Dr. Prasad Chittaluru
Dr. Prasad Chittaluru
Dr. Prasad Chittaluru
Brings 4 decades of experience in infrastructure data management. Awarded a prestigious National Academy of Science Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to invent and develop Simplify i3. Specializes in infrastructure owner business process improvement through digital twin technologies. Has served airports including at Orlan
Brings 4 decades of experience in infrastructure data management. Awarded a prestigious National Academy of Science Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to invent and develop Simplify i3. Specializes in infrastructure owner business process improvement through digital twin technologies. Has served airports including at Orlando, Harlingen, Buckeye, and Boca Raton. Leads EPIC Engineering & Consulting, the developer of Simplify i3.
Airport Business Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Experts
Udi Segall
Patrick Blattner
Patrick Blattner
Brings over 2 decades of technology application expertise, converging on video analytics middleware to improve airport Business Intelligence (BI) . Founder and CEO of IntellAct, a provider of actionable intelligence solutions that monitor, analyze and accelerate aircraft and passenger turn-around processing. Leveraging Artificial Intelli
Brings over 2 decades of technology application expertise, converging on video analytics middleware to improve airport Business Intelligence (BI) . Founder and CEO of IntellAct, a provider of actionable intelligence solutions that monitor, analyze and accelerate aircraft and passenger turn-around processing. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), IntellAct provides airlines, airports, and ground handling teams unprecedented real-time visibility into service performance bottlenecks and the ability to address them in a proactive and methodical manner that can yield significant operational improvements and a dramatic reduction in flight delays.
Patrick Blattner
Patrick Blattner
Patrick Blattner
Brings 3 decades of information technology expertise. As CEO of the Indoor Lab, has become an airport industry leader in LiDAR perception software, AI, and analytics; helping airports at Tampa, Denver, New York, Orlando, and others achieve digital twins of their dynamic passenger and aircraft processing to optimize operations and safety.
Spatial Technology & Data Experts (e.g., GIS, BIM, LiDAR, Im
Ed Maghboul
Jorge Quiroz
Jorge Quiroz
Brings 4 decades of spatial information technology experience including airports at Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Charlotte, and others. Leads x-Spatial and its development of the Airport Enterprise Geospatial Information System (AEGIS), achieving industry leading interoperability between Autodesk and Esri for airport enterprise ma
Brings 4 decades of spatial information technology experience including airports at Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Charlotte, and others. Leads x-Spatial and its development of the Airport Enterprise Geospatial Information System (AEGIS), achieving industry leading interoperability between Autodesk and Esri for airport enterprise management; including integration of BIM, CAD, GIS, and LiDAR with draped 360 degree imagery.
Jorge Quiroz
Jorge Quiroz
Jorge Quiroz
Brings over 2 decades of experience in helping multiple domestic and international airports adopt BIM as a tool for design and construction, so the data captured during these phases can be leveraged to feed airport enterprise asset management system, including Digital Twin. Jorge served as the BIM Director on the airport owner’s side for
Brings over 2 decades of experience in helping multiple domestic and international airports adopt BIM as a tool for design and construction, so the data captured during these phases can be leveraged to feed airport enterprise asset management system, including Digital Twin. Jorge served as the BIM Director on the airport owner’s side for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Jorge Leads PDBM Consulting in setting up airport owner BIM standards and BIM contract language, along with multiple protocols and procedures to enable owners to receive, produce, and release information in a consistent format, providing increased efficiency and productivity along with reducing time and cost.
Don Murray
Jorge Quiroz
Francesco Martinelli
Brings 4 decades of data processing automation experience. Co-founder of Safe Software, the inventors of the data Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) -- an industry leader for data integration middleware used in the AEC, airports, and other industries.
Francesco Martinelli
Francesco Martinelli
Francesco Martinelli
Brings over 2 decades of experience in LiDAR scanning, including airports such as LAX and CLT. Leads Trimble/Applanix TIMMS scanning solutions involving 360 degree imagery draped over LiDAR. Also brings expertise with leveraging robotic/semi-automated scanning platforms, to advance sustainability of digital twins with on-going facility modifications.
Scott Campbell
Francesco Martinelli
Matthew McCauley
Brings 4 decades of experience converging on LiDAR point-cloud data integrated with 360 degree imagery with Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine vision deep learning for automated asset identification and data capture. As CEO of Solv3D, provides industry leading platform to easily visualize, process, analyze, and share geospatial datasets.
Matthew McCauley
Francesco Martinelli
Matthew McCauley
Brings 4 decades of experience in remote sensing and visualization. As Chairman of GeoSim Cities, advances the 3D representation of geospatial data in ways that better couple it with human perceptual and cognitive systems. Actively involved with GeoSim's Airport Digital Twin projects including Vancouver Int'l Airport.
Dr. Behzad Mohammadi
Dr. Behzad Mohammadi
Dr. Behzad Mohammadi
Brings 4 decades of spatial information technology experience including airports at Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Charlotte, and others. Chief architect and developer of the x-Spatial Airport Enterprise Geospatial Information System (AEGIS), achieving industry leading interoperability between Autodesk and Esri for airport enterprise management.
Dr. Ali Diba
Dr. Behzad Mohammadi
Dr. Behzad Mohammadi
Brings 3 decades of experience implementing Esri's technologies with many awards and recognitions. His expertise are especially key to airport digital twins by leveraging Esri's Business Intelligence (BI) analytics solutions for correlating various disparate information over the spatial common denominator. He is x-Spatial's Esri techn
Brings 3 decades of experience implementing Esri's technologies with many awards and recognitions. His expertise are especially key to airport digital twins by leveraging Esri's Business Intelligence (BI) analytics solutions for correlating various disparate information over the spatial common denominator. He is x-Spatial's Esri technology lead on the AEGIS platform and has supported LAX and CLT airports.
John White
Dr. Behzad Mohammadi
John White
Brings 3 decades of experience in effective infrastructure project and full lifecycle data management. Has proven airport owner experience from Brussels, as well as airport consulting experience leveraging x-Spatial's solutions at Los Angeles, Boston, and Charlotte . Has developed best practices for sustaining airport terminal LiDAR sc
Brings 3 decades of experience in effective infrastructure project and full lifecycle data management. Has proven airport owner experience from Brussels, as well as airport consulting experience leveraging x-Spatial's solutions at Los Angeles, Boston, and Charlotte . Has developed best practices for sustaining airport terminal LiDAR scanning with 360 degree draped imagery, for interactive 3D floor plans integrated with GIS for airport digital twin applications.