Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization
The United States identifies, monitors, and defends a vast network of controlled airspaces surrounding its own and allied territories. These controlled airspaces include civilian aviation classes (A through G), drone flying regions, and special use (military) air classifications. These controlled sp...
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| description | The United States identifies, monitors, and defends a vast network of controlled airspaces surrounding its own and allied territories. These controlled airspaces include civilian aviation classes (A through G), drone flying regions, and special use (military) air classifications. These controlled spaces are invisible to the naked eye and often go unnoticed. Managing and portraying data that function in two and three dimensions poses significant challenges that have hindered prior analyses or geovisualizations of controlled airspaces, but we demonstrate here how many of these can be surmounted to visually represent the spatial extent and patterns of US-controlled airspace. In this paper, we demonstrate how these complex spaces can be graphically represented and highlight how cartographic and geovisual representations of often-overlooked domains contribute to a richer understanding of the reach and character of US airspace. The methods described for this work can be extended to other types of multidimensional objects and may facilitate more robust considerations of how Geographical Information Science (GIS) can be useful in analyzing and depicting airspace and territorial claims in three dimensions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-af9f373621f64903abe9ae9e36b926c72025-01-24T13:35:03ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642025-01-011413210.3390/ijgi14010032Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and VisualizationThi Hong Diep Dao0David G. Havlick1Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80920, USADepartment of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80920, USAThe United States identifies, monitors, and defends a vast network of controlled airspaces surrounding its own and allied territories. These controlled airspaces include civilian aviation classes (A through G), drone flying regions, and special use (military) air classifications. These controlled spaces are invisible to the naked eye and often go unnoticed. Managing and portraying data that function in two and three dimensions poses significant challenges that have hindered prior analyses or geovisualizations of controlled airspaces, but we demonstrate here how many of these can be surmounted to visually represent the spatial extent and patterns of US-controlled airspace. In this paper, we demonstrate how these complex spaces can be graphically represented and highlight how cartographic and geovisual representations of often-overlooked domains contribute to a richer understanding of the reach and character of US airspace. The methods described for this work can be extended to other types of multidimensional objects and may facilitate more robust considerations of how Geographical Information Science (GIS) can be useful in analyzing and depicting airspace and territorial claims in three dimensions.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/1/32controlled airspaceterritorial claimsvertical geopoliticsgeovisualization3DGIS |
| spellingShingle | Thi Hong Diep Dao David G. Havlick Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information controlled airspace territorial claims vertical geopolitics geovisualization 3D GIS |
| title | Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization |
| title_full | Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization |
| title_fullStr | Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization |
| title_short | Portraying the Geography of US Airspace with 3-Dimensional GIS-Based Analysis and Visualization |
| title_sort | portraying the geography of us airspace with 3 dimensional gis based analysis and visualization |
| topic | controlled airspace territorial claims vertical geopolitics geovisualization 3D GIS |
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