ODS Toolbox

Development toolbox for air traffic control operational display systems

A full range of ATM components

 

Application Components

 

Base Component
This component makes the implementation of large HMI applications simple and comfortable. It includes a sample application in source code demonstrating the ODS Toolbox™ coding techniques.

 

Geobase Component
The Geobase Component provides a comprehensive set of objects to handle and display objects with geographical latitude/longitude coordinates.

 

Proj4 Component
This component provides an object-oriented wrapper for the Proj4 geographic transformation library. A large and extendable set of standard projections ensures that the required projection can be integrated.

 

GlBase Component
ODS Toolbox™ comes with an OpenGL interface for extremely high-performance, hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics.

 

Video Component
The video component provides an interface to receive and display video stream data from cameras, TVs, webcams, and other video sources, that may be combined with other graphical components of the ODS Toolbox.™

 

GlRadar Component
This component visualizes digital radar video.
• superior performance using onboard OpenGL processing power of modern graphics adapters
• superimposing multiple radar video sources for actual ‘blip’ and afterglows, correctly projected on the map
• mixing video and radar (image fusion)

 

NIMA (NGA) Component
This component provides an interface to maps, objects, data, and formats as maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA, former NIMA). It reads, handles, and displays several formats as specified by NGA.

 

Communication Converters
Two ready-made components for an easy integration of external data sources are available: The ASTERIX Component provides an interface to the ASTERIX format of Eurocontrol, the ASN1 Component allows to receive and send messages in ASN.1. Apart from these ready-made components many other proprietary formats can be supported.

 

Service Components

 

Color Server/Color Service
This component allows for a flexible allocation, adaptation, and sharing of color resources including blinking, brightness control, and transparency

 

Multi Display
With the Multi Display functionality, you can place windows on different displays across the network and drive several screens with one mouse and keyboard

 

ODS Window Manager
The ODS Window Manager features extended functionality, such as window priorities, protected screen, area management and alert functions.