Example gallery
===============

Visualize aircraft trajectory data, common and more unusual patterns,
interactions between aircraft and air traffic control, wind, turbulence, Earth's
magnetic field, and more to come.

Aircraft trajectory patterns
----------------------------

Flying is not only about commercial aviation, many aircraft fly for different
reasons: commercial aviation (passenger and freight) is only one of its kind.

.. raw:: html

   <span class="gallery">

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/calibration.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Calibration flights"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/calibration-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Calibration flights</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/savan.html">
     <span class="image" alt="SAVAN flights"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/savan-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Calibration flights with SAVAN trajectories</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/tour_de_france.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Tour de France 2020"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/tour_de_france-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Tour de France 2020</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/zero_gravity.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Zero gravity flights"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/zero_gravity-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Zero gravity flights</span>
   </a>

   </span>

   <div style='clear:both;'></div>

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: -1
   :hidden:

   gallery/calibration
   gallery/savan
   gallery/tour_de_france
   gallery/zero_gravity

Air traffic control
-------------------

Visualize activities of air traffic controllers operating our skies and airports

.. raw:: html

   <span class="gallery">

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/is_this_a_plane.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Is this a plane?"
      style="background-image: url(./_images/aircraft_map.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Is this a plane?</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/landing_configuration.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Landing configuration"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/landing_configuration-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Landing configuration</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/landing_sequence.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Landing sequence"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/landing_sequence-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Landing sequence</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/squawk7700.html">
     <span class="image" alt="In-flight emergencies"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/squawk7700-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">In-flight emergencies</span>
   </a>

   </span>

   <div style='clear:both;'></div>


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: -1
   :hidden:

   gallery/is_this_a_plane
   gallery/landing_configuration
   gallery/landing_sequence
   gallery/squawk7700

Air traffic density
-------------------

Measure and visualize how many aircraft fly in the sky

.. raw:: html

   <span class="gallery">

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/heatmaps.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Heatmaps"
      style="background-image: url(./_images/covid19_heatmaps.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Heatmaps</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/covid19.html">
     <span class="image" alt="COVID-19"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/covid19.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Impact of COVID-19 on worldwide aviation</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/kaliningrad.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Flying to Kaliningrad"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/kaliningrad-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Flying to Kaliningrad during the Russian flight ban</span>
   </a>

   </span>

   <div style='clear:both;'></div>

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: -1
   :hidden:

   gallery/heatmaps
   gallery/covid19
   gallery/kaliningrad


Planet Earth
------------

How our planet impacts aircraft trajectories in unexpected ways

.. raw:: html

   <span class="gallery">

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/geomagnetic_declination.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Geomagnetic declination"
      style="background-image: url(./_images/magnetic_delta.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Geomagnetic declination</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/windfield.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Wind field"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/windfield-thumb.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">A Mode S based windfield</span>
   </a>

   <a class="imagegroup" href="gallery/sun_elevation.html">
     <span class="image" alt="Sun elevation"
      style="background-image: url(./_static/sun_elevation.png);"></span>
     <span class="image-title">Sun elevation</span>
   </a>

   </span>

   <div style='clear:both;'></div>


.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: -1
   :hidden:

   gallery/geomagnetic_declination
   gallery/windfield
   gallery/sun_elevation

Third-party examples
--------------------

Users in the community have been publishing some very appealing use cases on third-party websites. Here is an attempt to list some of them [1]_:

- `Thunderbolts and lightning, very very enlightening <https://spatialawareness.io/blog/thunderbolts-and-lightning/>`__
- `Flight Information Regions <https://observablehq.com/@xoolive/flight-information-regions>`__

.. [1] Please get in touch if you came across a nice use case not listed on this page.