Trajectories
The Trajectories sample illustrates the use of the trajectory painter. Flight trajectories are dynamically animated over time, or can be filtered based on attribute information. Density styling is automatically applied. All calculations are performed client side and use WebGL.
Air traffic analysis with LuciadRIA 3DThe data was kindly provided by Flightradar24 , recorded from 10 a.m., January 13, 2015, to 10 a.m., January 14, 2015 (GMT). It includes:
- 40,000 flight trajectories
- 1,500,000 recorded positions
Terrain data and imagery is served by LuciadFusion , Hexagon's image and vector tiling solution. The data is most detailed in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
What you can do- Use the free text search field to filter on any airport or airline.
- Drag the time indicator to manually set the time. Use mouse wheel or pinch over the indicator to change replay speed.
- Change the replay speed using the mouse wheel or pinch over the indicator.
- "Airspaces" button displays a selection of 1,200 controlled airspaces in the United States.
Where you can go- Go to any airport by typing it in the search field or use the bookmark buttons.
- Filter on Heathrow and zoom in to see the holding patterns. See how air traffic ends around midnight.
- Filter on Los Angeles or San Francisco : notice that most flight are domestic. Zoom in in 2D to see that flights align perfectly with landing strips.
- Filter on Lufthansa or All Nippon Airways : see where their home airports are and where they fly to.
See TrajectoryPainter for details on how to style trajectories.