RF visualization to support airborne collection management

Visualization of radio frequency (RF) has myriad commercial and military applications, including airborne collection management (CM). In airborne collection, an aircraft is equipped with a receiver that detects radio signals in the high frequency (HF, 3 to 30 MHz), very high frequency (VHF, 30 to 300 MHz), and ultra high frequency (UHF, 300 MHz to 3 GHz) bands of the spectrum. The aircraft must navigate selected regions, lingering in certain areas to collect data while avoiding others because of electronic interference or physical threat. The problem is therefore to set the optimal flight path, or surface, to collect RF data.