Contrails and aviation-induced cloudiness significantly contribute to climate change by trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. Current air traffic management systems lack effective tools to predict and mitigate these environmental impacts. The e-CONTRAIL Climate Hotspot Prediction Service addresses this gap by providing real-time predictions of high-impact contrail formation areas, enabling stakeholders to optimize flight paths for reduced environmental footprint and enhanced regulatory compliance

E-CONTRAIL is an advanced AI-based service with a twofold functionality: first, it quantifies the radiative forcing attributed to contrails leveraging satellite imagery and, second, predicts climate hotspots in airspace where contrails form, enabling regulatory bodies, flight dispatchers, airlines, air navigation service providers, and the Network Manager to manage flight paths and/or airspaces to reduce the environmental footprint of aviation. The AI models, trained using historical data, including satellite observations, weather, and aerial traffic, offers, on the one hand, historical quantification of the climatic impact of contrails as detected from satellite images and, on the other, ahead of time predictions to help mitigate the environmental impact of aviation.