24 Hours Of World Air Traffic

This updated NOAA HD graphic shows 24 hours of air traffic on the earth presented in a Mercator projection. The dataset tracks commercial flights from the approximately 9000 civil airports worldwide. The day/night terminator is included as a time reference. Flight traffic picks up noticeably during daylight hours and drops off through the night. Each yellow tail is one plane in this visualization Courtesy: NOAA, Data Set Source: , Data Set Developer: Thomas Ruosch, Dr. Karl Rege; Institute of Applied Information Technology, Zurich University of Applied Science, Visualization Developer: Thomas Hofer, Technorama - The Swiss Science Center