Flight Map
A representation of a 96-hour experience, capturing over 3000 planes in Brooklyn, NY.
From where I grew up, supposedly there shouldn’t be that many planes in the sky, so there goes a saying - you can make a wish if you catch 3 planes.
/ Gather and clean the data
Using a FlightAware stick together with softwares Cocoa1090 and CocoaRTLServer, I gathered a bunch of datas of the planes flying over my house over 96 hours.
/ Visualization and sonification
There are both visual and audio elements. Audio is an important part of my experience of planes. Sometimes I only acknowledge a plane with its sound above me, so I thought to keep this quality.It’s a chronological representation. A plane appeared at the exact time under the radar, and was detected for a duration. This part is indicated by the length of the color bar. And in this period, an amount of messages was detected, I use this to define the planes’ ‘loudness’, which was later used in the thickness of the bar and the amplitude of the sound. I also kept the ICAO identifier number for the planes, like little dots of trace.
Traffic during off-peak hours
Traffic during peak hours