Based on satellite images the area around selected airports is visualised with geospecific textures. The images are physical measurements of the real environment covering large areas and reflect the land cover of a region. By using data of different sensors with different geometric properties (i.e. Landsat Thematic Mapper data with 25m, SPOT 3 / 4 data with 10m or even Aerial Photographs up to 5cm geometric resolution) users requirements can be taken into account. The customer can specify regions of interest for which detailed visual scenery information is required.

The following screenshots were done with the latest Visual development, using 5cm aerial photography. Due to the extreme demand of computing and memory power, these high quality areas are only used as database insets. A typical area / inset with 5cm resolution is about 5km x 5km.

The screenshots below have been taken from the center channel only and show the same view angle with different visibility settings.

CAVOK

1200m Visibility

800m Visibility

300m Visibility

200m Visibility

100m Visibility