Europe 24 – an air traffic data visualisation

Why has no-one commented on this? This is a fascinating video showing how flight data has been analysed along with radar data to produce an amazing visual representation of the skies teeming with planes!

It opens your eyes to the complexity that has developed in our skies over a hundred years.

Excellent visualisation. Well done.

Fantastic, would be great as a screensaver too

Really awesome! Great job!

This looks great! Just like everybody else I am mesmerized and could simply watch this all day and not feel like I wasted any time. Can you tell me what tools you used and your workflow to create this masterpiece?

Great work Paul, you’re a great communicator! This may not be the best forum, but can you share some of the geo-geekery behind the scenes? You know I did aerospace 25 yrs ago when ATC was basically mainframes…

music ?

Very cool. I’ll be doing a write-up about this as it should put some people’s fear of flying into perspective and help them overcome it.

Wow… this is really awesome. May I ask what kind of software/solution was used to render this? Tks!

It’s fantastic that it’s possible to show all of this in such a beautiful way. You did great job. Thanks

Absolutely amazing. Couldn’t you use this technology to help find that missing plane?

Do you think it would be possible to make a “screensaver version” of this video? (remove the time indication, loop seamlessly, beef up the resolution)

Awesome work. Everyone should be proud.
Sure I speak for many – any chance you could enlighten us with a brief on what you used to create…?

Amazing, simply amazing. Also the music is great. Whats the name of the music title please?

It is a showcase of how complex situations with a high risk component can be managed. Large and small companies could learn a lot from this.

What is the cumulative effect of the planes exhaust fumes at this high altitude? Ever watch a contrail how it spreads across the sky. The real climate changer. Its blocking our sun. Giving more rain. Cloud seeding? Life blood or Death Blood? Wake up, smell coffee.

I love this video, thanks.
Is it just commercial flights or are private and military flights included in this?

Very nice work!

One question. Since there are 1440 minutes in a 24-hour (solar) day, this video should be one minute long if it represents a 24-hour period at 1440X real time. Is it actually at 720X real time?

Hello Paul, I really loved the visualization. I am a rookie data scientist, I was wondering if you can share the dataset that was used for this visualization ?

Real time ALL planes in the air over the US….http://www.flightradar24.com/34.37,-100.15/4

Awesome video!

Impressive movie!

Fantastic video. Highly captivating and puts into perspective the operational side of the industry.

This is an incredibly beautiful visualization! Just out of curiosity, how was it created? (What programming language did you use?)

impressive, can you share some technical details about the data set and geographical rendering?

Astonishing scene !
Could you make a film for Asia area ?

Anyone remember “Highways in the Sky”? CCF 1991

Hi Team NATS,

you have made an awesome video!

Would it be possible to license your visualisation for commercial use?

Greetings from Germany,

Tao

Please use yours technology to find Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in the night ocean are dark and this plane have several light

Hi Paul great animation
I would like to use your animation for one personal multimedia art work, where a sort of UFO shows up in between all these others planes, i already made a first try and it looks great.
I could send you a sample ..
Would it be possible to get your permission for this?

best regards for your work anyway

Juergen from Germany

with all these data , just curious why MH370 disappeared and no one knows where it is

Hi guys,
This is a tremendous animation. I enjoy debunking a certain theory involving contrails and I now use this video as an illustration of how busy our skies are.
many thanks.

Excellent visualization. Are these visualizations public domain? Would they have to be licensed in any way to show?

Paul, Matthew
First of all congratulation for the awsome video: it’s captivating from second 1 to the end.
It’ so good that I would like to use an extract to edit a small video for promoting my project for airline ticket website in the frame of a start-up context in France
Would it be possible to have your authorization?
Thank you
Davide

Not much of Europe until 1800

Are you working on a simulation for the U.S.? Also, can you tell me how you average out the radar tracks for the London visualization? Your video is causing quite a stir among some of your American cousins. Outstanding work!

Hi, your video looks really great; a symbol of constant move/dynamic innovation for the airline industry. I would love to use it in the background of my startup landing page – mentioning the credentials that you’d like me to display of course. Is that possible?
Thank you very much!

Hi Paul! The video/audio impression is truly addicting. We’re currently redeveloping our website, and wondered whether you’d authorise us to use some 20 secs trim of the video & audio on our landing page intro. We serve clients internationally, and we would love to have it, as it is such appropriately suggestive. Should the audio be copyrighted to somebody else, I’d appreciate so much if you can let me know how can I get in touch. As you earlier indicated by you to Clement, we’d be more than happy to give an acknowledgement to NATS and include a link back to the blog post. Thank you very much!

I would very much like to know why some planes, turn right when they reach St ives in Cornwall, and of course their destination please. I live on the north coast of Cornwall and most days they fly down along the coast then head out over the Atlantic.

I wrote my BS thesis in computer science on the analysis of the global flight network, I can tell you that LHR is the most important airport in the world

Dear Paul,

I am wondering if it would be possible to use the picture on the top of this site as a cover image for a book? The book is a social science book about Europe, so the image would have rather a symbolic meaning about the interconnectedness within Europe. As it is a scientific book we are working on a very low budget…

I would be very grateful for a quick reply.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Paul, I really like the pictures and animation you did here. I wanted to know if its possible to use this photo for the background of a landing page of my startup company. Of course I will mention the credentials and link the picture back to this page.

Looks like a cancerous growth to me – noise pollution and air pollution combined. Take away the pretty music and it is frightening what the Aviation Industry is doing to our skies.

Hi Paul,
This is a really nice video.
I have a question about this video. I am a research fellow @ University of Nottingham and we are working on a research project about optimizing the civil aircraft structure. I am preparing an advertisement for our project that will be published by the University in Twitter and etc. I would like to use a video that show the huge demand of air traffic around EU and this video is so nice. I would like to know that is it possible to use this video from copyright point of view? Is it free to use for us? I don’t want to do some thing illegal’s.
Thanks