BARCO’s Graphics Controllers Now Operational in Micro-EARTS at Shaw Air Force Base and Several Other DoD and FAA Sites
LE BOURGET, FRANCE, June 12, 1999 -- BARCO Display Systems is pleased to announce that the US Air Force and Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completed Operational Readiness Demonstration of the Microprocessor Enroute Automated Radar Tracking System (Micro-EARTS) at Shaw Air Force Base on March 11, 1999. Shaw Air Force Base selected the cost-efficient and state-of-the-art Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management’s (Rockville, MD) Micro-EARTS Controller Workstation (MCW), which incorporates commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware, including Sony’s 2K x 2K monitors and BARCO Display Systems’ advanced PCI 4800 graphics controllers, to control their newly assigned airspace for training.
The BARCO PCI 4800 is a powerful 2048 x 2048 single board PCI graphics controller with extensive X-window support, which provides the Micro-EARTS system with optional capability to record and playback air traffic information in real-time, enhancing system safety by providing immediate event analysis. The PCI 4800 drawing acceleration functionality increases the graphics performance, which is very critical for time-symbology information applications such as air traffic control.
Lockheed Martin’s Micro-EARTS combines both en route and terminal ATC displays of air traffic data received from multiple short and long range radars. The new Micro-EARTS, with the BARCO PCI 4800 graphics controllers are now operational at over 10 FAA/Department of Defense (DoD) locations including Fairbanks, Fort Polk, San Juan, White Sands Missile Range, Guam and Honolulu CERAP sites, Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC), Nellis and Shaw Air Force Bases.
Additional Micro-EARTS workstations have been supplied to the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the FAA Williams J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
About BarcoView:
BarcoView with operation facilities in Kortrijk (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon (USA) designs and manufactures high-resolution display systems, displays, graphics controllers and display subsystems for highly demanding niche markets such as C4I, avionics, vessel and air traffic control, vehicle electronics, and medical imaging applications.
Alongside Barco Projection Systems and BarcoVision, BarcoView is one of the three strategic activities of the BARCO Group, which are all active in Image Processing. Barco Projection is in various markets of large screen visualization, whereas BarcoVision develops systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2000, the entire BARCO group delivered a turnover of euro 751 million. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
For more information, please contact
Inge
Govaerts
Public Relations Manager
Barco Security & Monitoring
Telephone
+32 56 36 8052
inge.govaerts@barco.com
