Cloud to host legacy airport layout plans and orthoimages

Abstract

Airports GIS is a web portal which hosts a few application modules. It allows authorized Airports GIS users to submit changes to airport data. One module in this portal is electronic Airport Layout Plan (eALP). This application when deployed will help create digital Airport Layout Plans. The layout view capability in this module is provided by ESRI's ArcGIS server. We are using GIS data available for a few airports which were included in our pilot program study for electronic ALP development. We expect this application will go to production sometimes next year. It will take several years before most or all airports in USA have their digital Airport Layout Plans. During this transition period we would store legacy Airport Layout Plans in Cloud. These Layout Plans are basically in pdf form. Plan to catalogue these Layout Plans and provide access to users is currently being discussed. As part of Airports GIS survey module requirement we get airport imagery for every submitted airport to Airports GIS. We plan to archive these orthoimages in Cloud and then give the ability to users to take advantage of ESRI's ArcGIS to analyze and manage these imageries. These orthoimages are large in size. In future we will receive many orthoimages because the number of airports who submit this data is growing and the size of each orthoimage is also growing. Hence it needs special care to organize and access these imageries. Once completed this will have siginificant impact on airport planning and budgeting.