Key Features

ArcGIS for Aviation: Airports provides tools and templates that eliminate costly and time-consuming database design and help ensure consistency for airport data using a best practices airport schema.

Key capabilities available with ArcGIS for Aviation: Airports include:

Preconfigured Map Product Templates

• Use them out-of-the box or easily customize to an airport's specific requirement.
• Support a multitude of airport operations to include planning activities, map requests, and/or community outreach.

Automated Data Validation Tools

• Improve data quality and submit compliant data to the FAA the first time
• Over 450 preconfigured checks developed from the FAA's Airports GIS specification for comprehensive checking and reporting on both geometry and attribute data
• Checks can be extended to support international requirements such as the European Commission’s ADQ.

Preconfigured Airport Data Editing Templates

Preconfigured data editing templates are provided to

• Consistently and efficiently create and manage airport data.
• Tailor the interface to an airport's specific data editing requirements.
• Streamline data creation by pre-populating recurring attribute values.

Automated Tools for Creating and Visualizing Obstacle Surfaces

• Create and visualize FAA Part 77, FAA AC 150/5300-18, and ICAO Annex 14 & 15 Obstacle Identification Surfaces using parameter-based geoprocessing tools.
• Easily generate these surfaces in iterative "what if" planning scenarios.

Automated Export of Your Airports GIS Data for Submission to the FAA

• Automatically export FAA-compliant shapefiles from your AC 150/5300-18 geodatabase thereby reducing the time required to prepare and package your data for submission.