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Every day, over 100,000 commercial flights transport passengers around the world. At any given moment, you can see the real-time positions of nearly all these flights, not to mention a large number of cargo and private flights, thanks to Flightradar24, a premier flight tracking service.
Flightradar24 provides rich data for plane enthusiasts watching the skies overhead, news media tracking air traffic incidents, and everyday people tracking friends’ and family members’ flights.
Flightradar24’s 3D view is available in both browser and mobile apps and is built with CesiumJS. The application displays real-time flight positions collected from ground and satellite ADS-B transponders, radar, and more.
3D view in Flightradar24.
Aircraft are represented by 3D models, and viewers can navigate with a cockpit view or pan and zoom from outside the aircraft to observe the flight from any angle. When an aircraft is below 500 meters, it also casts a shadow on the terrain below, calculated based on the actual position of the sun at that time.
An aircraft casting a shadow on approach to an airport in the 3D view.
Users can click on a flight to view details such as flight number, speed, destination, altitude, arrival time, and data source. Viewers can see airports and other traffic, and even toggle flight routes.
In addition to the selected flight, users can also see nearby aircraft.
Flightradar24’s real-time data serves critical information to millions of users every month, and Cesium is specifically designed to support that scenario. To get started visualizing your own time-dynamic data with Cesium, follow our simple tutorial to create a drone flight in Cesium Stories.
Original link: https://cesium.com/blog/2020/08/13/flightradar24/
Author: Sarah Chow
Comment: CesiumJS applications are becoming increasingly widespread.
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