Visualizing Local Weather Characteristics Interpreted from Glider GPS Flight Logs

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dc.contributor.authorHsieh, Tung-Juen_US
dc.contributor.authorKuester, Falkoen_US
dc.contributor.authorHutchinson, Taraen_US
dc.contributor.editorBing-Yu Chen and Jan Kautz and Tong-Yee Lee and Ming C. Linen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-31T09:37:12Z
dc.date.available2013-10-31T09:37:12Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractVisualization can aid in improving the validation and evaluation of glider flight logs, which in turn can make the logs more meaningful in flight evaluation and planning. This paper presents techniques to interpret and visualize local weather characteristics derived from glider flight logs. Although glider flight logs only contain discretely sampled position and elevation records, local weather characteristics such as thermal lift and wind velocity can be interpreted from the temporal and spatial components in the logs. A total number of 397 flight logs were used in this study, statistics were performed to identify strong thermal locations, maximum flight altitudes, and weather patterns along flight routes. When the derived thermal features are geo-referenced with 3D terrain models, results support post-flight evaluation and pre-flight planning. For a given flight task, the pilot can derive an optimal flight path based on the presented visualization techniques and the statistics obtained from the historical records.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationPacific Graphics Short Papersen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905673-84-5en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/PE/PG/PG2011short/099-103en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectCategories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.8 [Computer Graphics]: Applicationsen_US
dc.titleVisualizing Local Weather Characteristics Interpreted from Glider GPS Flight Logsen_US
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