As US Airways 1549 made it’s historic plunge into the Hudson River, data was being collected from radar stations, NEXRAD weather stations, and many other sources in real-time. The NSTB and Exosphere3D have combined all of this into an animation of the various sources showing the accident with startling detail.
The quality of these visualizations is meant to withstand the rigors of qualification for presentation either as demonstrative evidence or, if sufficient witness testimony is available, real evidence. Interestingly, “The raw data files for each radar facility are more than 1 million lines each and must be sorted and reduced into meaningful information before they can be plotted on a map.”
The results are available on their website as a collection of high-resolution Youtube videos.
Visually Reconstructing Flight US Airways 1549 (Landing in the Hudson) via – information aesthetics.
