A graduate student named Aaron Cobland tracked all flights across the United States on March 20, 2002, using FAA satellite records and imagery. What he produced was an astonishing view of "America painted by planes."
At dawn, planes arrive in the northeast from Europe while the eastern corridor alights. (Image below.) Soon, the entire U.S. is revealed as flights erupt in the midwest and west and traffic starts to and from Asia.
Credit ABC's Robert Krulwich for presenting this report at:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=3378273. I have not watched network news in 10-15 years, but Krulwich's work rises above the din. See other visual experiments in a March 19, 2007 entry, The Biology of Leadership.
At dawn, planes arrive in the northeast from Europe while the eastern corridor alights. (Image below.) Soon, the entire U.S. is revealed as flights erupt in the midwest and west and traffic starts to and from Asia.
Credit ABC's Robert Krulwich for presenting this report at:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=3378273. I have not watched network news in 10-15 years, but Krulwich's work rises above the din. See other visual experiments in a March 19, 2007 entry, The Biology of Leadership.
