Student: Bradford Quamina
Senior Researcher: Dr. Wilson
Title: An Analysis of Airport Database Features and Their attributes, Using GIS and Remote Sensing.
This investigation is an analysis of the government airport database that includes 10 features, 11 through 20, or the Final Approach and Takeoff Areas through Frequency Areas of 60 U.S. airports. The purpose of this was to make a safe system of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) safer. When the airports are at low volume of airplanes arriving and departing the ATC is working at a manageable rate. When the airports at high volume, however, many mishaps can occur, therefore potential accidents are liable to happen. The materials used in this research were the airport database along with satellite images, really high-speed performance personal computers (Pentium 4). The personal computers were used to download airport features from the database, which was a private file transfer protocol, then it was extracted using a software called ArcView. This tool was used to view the attribute lists and digitized features. The computers were also used with another software called ENVI. This software was used to view satellite images of the Baltimore Washington International airport and render them to extract features that the human eye would not be able to do. There were several hindering encounters throughout the research interim. One encounter was that there were many errors while downloading. Another encounter was miscommunication between the lab members and the advisor. The features that are being concentrated have, on average, four features not included in the airport database. Observations show that the airports of interest on average that actually have attributes attainable range from three to nine attributes. Also, analysis shows that over 60% of the airports do not have half the required attributes by the RTCA/DO-192 manual.
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