Activity Description:

The kids learned about computer maps and charts used by aviation pilots, how 3-D models of the ground are made, and what air traffic controllers use to monitor planes in the sky during take-off and landing. They also made their own computer generated charts.

Some of the things they learned:

What are some of the names of the charts that airplane pilots use?

How do pilots know how to get from one airport to another?

How do air traffic controllers separate and identify airplanes?

What does a pilot have to do before taking a flight?

How do you make a chart from aerial photographs?

How do you make a 3-dimensional terrain model of the surface of the earth?

Program Features:

Aeronautical Data Collection and Flight Planning

Developing Automated Charts

Computer Center/Digital Maps

See The Kids and what they made!


Coordinated by:

Jay Jackson,
(301) 713-2949

 

Office of Aeronautical Charting & Cartography

NOAA Kids Day Web Site