Airfield Obstacle-Surface Evaluation Platform
Clear Path helps users screen proposed objects against supported airfield protected-surface criteria, visualize applicability in 2D/GIS and 3D engineering views, and export preliminary reports for planning, coordination, and review.
Platform capabilities
From plan-view applicability checks to report-ready outputs, Clear Path keeps preliminary obstruction screening technically grounded, visually understandable, and easier to review with planning, engineering, and coordination teams.
Clear Path first determines whether the proposed object is inside a surface's applicable plan-view footprint. Elevation is only compared after the object is confirmed to be within that area of applicability, which prevents adjacent surfaces from being incorrectly stacked as simultaneous violations.
Calculations are driven by encoded protected-surface dimensions, slopes, offsets, and applicability rules. The evaluator compares the proposed object's location and elevation against the selected criteria and reports violations, clear surfaces, not applicable surfaces, and not evaluated surfaces separately.
Clear Path evaluates against supported encoded criteria sets, including FAA Part 77 and selected airfield-design or DoD/UFC criteria where implemented. Users remain responsible for verifying source applicability, local requirements, and current regulatory guidance.
The map view shows airfield context, runway geometry, object location, and selected protected-surface overlays. Visible overlays provide planning context; actual violations are determined by the evaluator's applicability and elevation logic.
The 3D view presents projected engineering geometry, including runway reference, object position, selected surface projections, and omitted-surface notes when a selected surface cannot be rendered. It is an engineering visualization, not live satellite imagery.
Clear Path exports preliminary PDF reports with inputs, criteria and source information, results, assumptions, limitations, and calculation transparency for coordination and planning.