Dynamic Multiscale Visualization of Flight Data

Tijmen Klein, Matthew van der Zwan, Alexandru Telea

2014

Abstract

We present a novel set of techniques for visualization of very large data sets encoding flight information obtained from Air Traffic Control. The aims of our visualization are to provide a smooth way to explore the available information and find outlier spatio-temporal patterns by navigating between fine-scale, detail, views on the data and coarse overviews of large areas and long time periods. To achieve this, we extend and adapt several image-based visualization techniques, including animation, density maps, and bundled graphs. In contrast to previous methods, we are able to visualize significantly more information on a single screen, with limited clutter, and also create real-time animations of the data. For computational scalability, we implement our method using GPU-accelerated techniques. We demonstrate our results on several real-world data sets ranging from hours over a country to one month over the entire world.

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Klein T., van der Zwan M. and Telea A. (2014). Dynamic Multiscale Visualization of Flight Data . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-003-1, pages 104-114. DOI: 10.5220/0004685701040114


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@conference{visapp14,
author={Tijmen Klein and Matthew van der Zwan and Alexandru Telea},
title={Dynamic Multiscale Visualization of Flight Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={104-114},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004685701040114},
isbn={978-989-758-003-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Dynamic Multiscale Visualization of Flight Data
SN - 978-989-758-003-1
AU - Klein T.
AU - van der Zwan M.
AU - Telea A.
PY - 2014
SP - 104
EP - 114
DO - 10.5220/0004685701040114