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Awe: aviation weather data visualization environment (Document No: 20010008274)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Lodha, Suresh K. Spirkovska, Lilly |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Description | The two official sources for aviation weather reports both provide weather information to a pilot in a textual format. A number of systems have recently become available to help pilots with the visualization task by providing much of the data graphically. However, two types of aviation weather data are still not being presented graphically. These are airport-specific current weather reports (known as meteorological observations, or METARs) and forecast weather reports (known as terminal area forecasts, or TAFs). Our system, Aviation Weather Environment (AWE), presents intuitive graphical displays for both METARs and TAFs, as well as winds aloft forecasts. We start with a computer-generated textual aviation weather briefing. We map this briefing onto a cartographic grid specific to the pilot's area of interest. The pilot is able to obtain aviation-specific weather for the entire area or for his specific route. The route, altitude, true airspeed, and proposed departure time can each be modified in AWE. Integral visual display of these three elements of weather reports makes AWE a useful planning tool, as well as a weather briefing tool. |
| File Size | 1664050 |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2000-12-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aircraft Communications And Navigation Flight Conditions Meteorological Parameters Display Devices Weather Forecasting Computer Graphics Graphical User Interface Cockpit Weather Information Systems Winds Aloft Aviation Meteorology Scientific Visualization Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |