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Digital Twin Technology for AviationAs technology progresses, so have the tools for data visualization. This project presents a digital twin model of the San Francisco airport displaying a 10-minute window of historical flight data, visualizing the trajectory data of airplanes and vehicles in three dimensions. Multiple different cameras where implemented to fully utilize the 3D visualization. This is a 100:1 feet scale model created in Autodesk Maya, using the airport center as the origin and recalculating all coordinates accordingly featuring the airport, some surrounding buildings, and the bay. For this project, six different models of airplanes were modeled at a 50:1 feet scale with texturing to mimic real-world aircraft models along with certain airlines. The animation is driven through archived data captured from NASA’s Sherlock Open-Data Portal, cleaned of noisy data points, processed into useable data formats, and implemented into a Maya ASCII file of animation paths with the corresponding previously-stated airplane models attached all using Java based conversion program.
Document ID
20230011622
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Poster
Authors
Aleksander Schade
(Granada High School )
Lyssa Li
(University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California, United States)
Date Acquired
August 5, 2023
Subject Category
Avionics and Aircraft Instrumentation
Meeting Information
Meeting: Poster Day
Location: Moffett field, CA
Country: US
Start Date: August 9, 2023
Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: 80NSSC22DA010
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Use by or on behalf of the US Gov. Permitted.
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