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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W8-2025-493-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Real Time Interactive Web GIS Based Modelling of High Traffic Air Corridors in Iran Using Origin Destination Matrix Analysis</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Eghbali Mardekheh</surname>
<given-names>Masoumeh</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Argany</surname>
<given-names>Meysam</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Karimipour</surname>
<given-names>Farid</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sedghitabar</surname>
<given-names>Seyed Mohammad</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Ph.D. Candidate of GIS, School of Surveying and Geospatial Eng., College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Dept. of Remote Sensing and GIS, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Mehrabad International Airport General Directorate, Aviation Operations Department, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>29</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>X-4/W8-2025</volume>
<fpage>493</fpage>
<lpage>500</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Masoumeh Eghbali Mardekheh et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Air traffic management is a critical component of aviation, aiming to balance safety, capacity and demand within controlled airspace. This research analyses Iran&apos;s domestic air transport network (2018-2021) by developing annual Origin-Destination (OD) impedance matrices based on flight frequency. The methodology quantifies network connectivity, revealing a highly centralized structure dominated by core corridors like Tehran-Mashhad, which carried over 10,500 flights in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe disruption in 2020, with traffic on major routes falling by nearly half, followed by a partial recovery in 2021. Analysis shows core hubs rebounded faster than peripheral airports, widening accessibility gaps. Through origin-destination matrix processing, the system identifies high density air routes and analyses historical trends in airspace utilization. The impedance matrix, validated against data (R&amp;sup2;=0.87), successfully maps the intense service on hub links and the high impedance of sparse peripheral routes. Then an interactive Web GIS platform was implemented for spatiotemporal analysis of air traffic density.</p>
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