Generate Airspace Areas (Aviation Tools)

Summary

Generates AirspaceArea features from Airspace features.

Overlapping three-dimensional Airspace features at various altitudes can be converted to two-dimensional AirspaceArea features. These converted features can be used as annotation to display the two-dimensional extent of an airspace on an aeronautical chart.

Usage

• The Input Airspace Features parameter value must be from the Airspace feature class from the Aeronautical Information System (AIS) geodatabase schema.

  Learn more about the Airspace feature class

• The Target Airspace Area Features parameter value must be from the AirspaceArea feature class from the AIS geodatabase schema.

  Learn more about the AirspaceArea feature class

  Note:

  You can use this tool to update, delete, and create features for this feature class.

• The Vertical Limit Override Table parameter value must be the VerticalLimitOverride table from the AIS geodatabase schema.

  Learn more about the VerticalLimitOverride table

• The Area of Interest Features polygon feature class is used to set a boundary within which airspace polygon features will be processed. Airspace polygon features that wholly or partially overlap the area of interest (AOI) will be processed.

  Note:

  The tool will only honor Area of Interest Features parameter values that are currently selected on a feature layer. If no AOI is selected, the tool will run using all features in the Area of Interest Features parameter value.

• You can use a definition query on AOI features to limit the number of features that are processed.

• You must populate the Preference Table parameter value before running this tool. These preferences will define how the tool generates airspace areas. After a preference is created, you can update the attributes as necessary. You can also create multiple preferences by assigning a unique name to each preference in the table.

  This tool uses preferences to define the following properties:

  • Airspace Type—Limit processing to specific airspace types.

  • Attribute filter (optional)—Use an expression to control which airspace features are processed.

  • Spatial selection—Limit processing to features that overlap and exist between specified high and low flight levels.

  Note:

  When creating a preferences, you must have an AIS_AOI feature class in the map's table of contents.

  Learn more about creating preferences

  Caution:

  This tool modifies the input data. See Tools that modify or update the input data for more information and strategies to avoid undesired data changes.

Parameters

• Dialog
• Python

Label	Explanation	Data type
Input Airspace Features	The input Airspace features. These features adhere to the AIS geodatabase schema.	Feature Layer
Target Airspace Area Features	The target AirspaceArea feature class. These features adhere to the AIS geodatabase schema.	Feature Layer
Area of Interest Features	The AOI boundary within which features will be processed.	Feature Layer
Preference Table	The table containing the specified preferences.	Table View
Preference	The preference derived from the Preference Table parameter that will be used to process the airspace features at the specified altitudes.	String
Derived Airspace Parts (Optional)	The feature class that will be updated with airspace features derived from the Input Airspace Features parameter. The feature class that will be updated with airspace features derived from the in_airspace_features parameter.	Feature Layer
Vertical Limit Override Table (Optional)	A table that overrides the vertical height values set in the preference table.	Table View

Derived output

Label	Explanation	Data type
Updated Airspace Area Features	The updated AirspaceArea features.	Feature Layer

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.

Licensing information

• Basic: No
• Standard: No
• Advanced: Requires ArcGIS Aviation Charting

Related topics

• An overview of the Data Management toolset
• Find a geoprocessing tool