Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com ADS-79D-HDBK APPENDIX L DATA INTEGRITY L.1 SCOPE This Appendix establishes the guidance for ensuring the Integrity of Data Collection, Transmission, and Storage as a component of any Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) system. L.2 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS The documents listed below are not necessarily all of the documents referenced herein, but are those needed to understand the information provided by this handbook. The following specifications, standards, and handbooks (available at www.rtca.org >) form a part of this appendix to the extent specified herein.
(Copies of this document are available from http://www.rtca.org/ or RTCA, Inc., 1150 18th Street, NW Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036, Tel: 202-833-9339, Fax: 202-833-9434 info@rtca.org ) In addition to these documents, Section 2.1.1 of the basic ADS (of which this is Appendix L) contains others that have general pertinence to the CBM process and should be reviewed. L.3 DEFINITIONS Data Availability. Data Availability refers to the provisions taken to ensure that the data is available to the maintenance user at the time of need. These provisions include the use of a reliable delivery mechanism as well as storage media. Data Mining.
Data Mining refers to reviewing or processing the data in order to obtain information or knowledge. Depending on the format of the stored data, this process can range from signal processing of sampled measurements to queries performed on database tables. 225 RADIO TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR AERONAUTICS (RTCA) RTCA DO-178B. Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification. RTCA DO-200A. . Standards for Processing Aeronautical Data RTCA DO-201A. Standards for Aeronautical Information, 19 April 2000 RTCA DO-278 Guidelines for Communication, Navigation, Surveillance, and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Systems Software Integrity Assurance, 5 March 2002. RTCA Report:
Future Flight Data Collection Committee Final Report, Issued 4 December 2001.