BARCO's Tellar Software System Selected by Lockheed Martin for ATOP Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. - BarcoView has been awarded a 1.5 Million USD contract from Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management to assist in providing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with an integrated, modernized solution controlling oceanic air traffic under the Advanced Technologies and Oceanic Procedures (ATOP) program. BarcoView will supply Lockheed Martin with Tellar, Barco's display record and playback software system, which is required for incident analysis and features recording technology pioneered by BarcoView.
Under the ATOP program, the FAA is currently upgrading the oceanic air traffic management systems at Oakland, New York and Anchorage. The FAA's oceanic systems at these three centers provide positive control and monitoring for U.S. and international commercial carriers operating across the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, supporting 80 percent, or 23 million square miles, of the world's oceanic airspace. An integral part of controlling and monitoring commercial carriers is the ability of the air traffic control operators to visually analyze radar display images.Lockheed selected Barco's Tellar Software System because of its pioneered digital method of recording, its scalability and expandability, and its ability to record ATC system displays without demanding large amounts of data storage, as traditional video recording requires.Barco's UNIX-based Tellar archiving system allows the continuous recording of multiple operational visual display positions. Archiving the recordings is performed on one or more dedicated workstations using removable tape media. Playback of the archived information from any workstation is accessible for any desired time interval, and the recordings can be viewed and analyzed at either the same or a different dedicated workstation, or operation console. Recording, archiving and playback are synchronous features.All recordings are generated using a completely digital method pioneered by BarcoView. Rather than digitally recording the radar display image, Tellar provides the functional equivalent of a video recorder by digitally recording the drawing commands used to produce screen images. The advantage of recording the drawing commands versus digital video recording is the reduction in stored data . Display recording improves air safety, supports ATC system development, air traffic controller training, and enables supervisors to monitor in real time the load at each operator's position.
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