Below the Wings | Pilots Plus
Huntsville, AL
The Challenge | Pilots Plus
Provide private aircraft pilots and passengers with an easy-to-use tool that gives information about the land underneath their flight plans.
Below the Wings
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Provide information about flight and the terrain below to pilots and passengers.
Project Link: http://belowthewings.herokuapp.com/
Repository: https://github.com/snf2ye/SpaceApps
Features:
Information about sample flight between Boston and Los Angeles:
- 3D Map of flight route and points of interest along the flight plan
- Selecting airplane on route shows a perspective view from the plane, where the user can explore the terrain below and data of interest overlaid--in this case, population density
Tools and Data Utilized:
- Cesium
- 2012 Population Density Dataset
- Points of interest from NASA's Images of Change
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.