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Overview

Helicopter Landing Zone

A helicopter landing zone (HLZ) is any specified zone used for the landing of helicopters. The Helicopter Landing Zone template provides a tool to create two feature classes containing possible touchdown point circles and center points for a selected aircraft.

Requirements

Helicopter Landing Zone requires specific technical experience and software. Minimum system requirements for the ArcGIS Platform can be found on the Support website.

Requirement Description
Experience
  • Using geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS for Desktop
Software
Map Authoring
  • ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop Advanced
  • ArcGIS 10.3 Spatial Analyst

What you get

When you download the Helicopter Landing Zone template, the download includes the following:

Directory Folder Item Description
data layers Various Layer Files A folder that contains the layers to symbolize the outputs.
N/A HelicopterLandingZone.gdb Contains the example input data.
Results.gdb Used to store the output datasets.
Scratch.gdb Used to store intermediate datasets.
documentation N/A Using the Helicopter Landing Zone Template.pdf PDF Document with instructions on how to get started with the template.
toolboxes Scripts Various Python Scripts Python scripts used in the creation of the HLZ Touchdown Points tool.
Helicopter Landing Zone.tbx HLZ Touchdown Points This tool identifies potential touchdown points for a specific aircraft within suitable landing areas.
N/A N/A HelicopterLandingZone.mxd A Map Document used to create the helicopter landing zone analysis product.

What's new

Below are the release notes for Helicopter Landing Zone. If you'd like to get help from other military and intelligence community members, post your question on GeoNet.

Version Description
December 2016
  • This solution is in mature support.
4.0.0
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop
3.0.0
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop
2.0.0
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop
1.0.0
  • Support for ArcGIS 10.0 SP2 for Desktop

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