I decided to show a smaller airport today, so this time Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF/KSDF) is in frame. I have now made about 85 of these renders, and this airport has buy far the most chaotic departure pattern I have seen so far. Almost the entire frame is taken up by green trace from departing aircraft.

The cover image is also showing off my "new" overlay which I have finally decided on after much experimentation with different types of map layer. In the end I decided that anything I added tended to detract from the interest of the heatmap renders, so I have opted to keep things simple instead.

Swipe to see the image without an overlay, and separate renders with only the approaches in blue, and only the departures in green.

Posted by jimbob3806

8 comments

  2. I really like your choice of colors for the heat map. At first glance you’d think the amount of overlap would make the arrivals/departures hard to distinguish, but I think it works really well for your data.

    Both clear and really pretty!

  3. want to see chaos, do an image with all the airports around DEN….

  5. Would be cool to do the major airports in Hawaii – ITO, KOA, LIH, HNL ,OGG and get them all in the same shot. See traffic between islands plus west coast, Alaska, Asia, South Pacific, and Australia/new Zealand.

  6. This what I call, when data is beautiful (represented)

    Here my upvote my guy

  7. I’ve really been enjoying this series! Patiently waiting for my home airports to make an appearance 😄

  8. For some context the Louisville airport is the hub for almost all East Coast UPS air traffic which is probably part of the reason for the varying departure flights compared to other airports. Amazing visualization and waiting for the Charlotte one!

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