1. FalconView Open Source Inspired Features
Chris Bailey
Georgia Tech Research Institute

2. Understanding FalconView Versions
FalconView – Currently Fielded
TalonView – Fielded by NGA
FalconView – Just completed Operational Test !
FalconView – About to Enter FQT
FalconView Open Source – Synched to Gov Version
FalconView 5.0 – Almost to “Beta” stage

3. FalconView Open Source (4.2.1)
Feature Matrix
PFPS SP5
PFPS 4.0.1
PFPS 4.1.1
TalonView 4.1.1
FalconView Comercial 4.1.1
PFPS 4.2
FalconView Open Source (4.2.1)
Basic Map Handling / Printing
Yes
VVOD -
Polar Charts
GeoTIFF DEM (LIDAR)
GeoPDF Support
ECRG Support
GeoJPEG2000
Streaming JPIP
Basic Aircraft Route Planning
Aircraft Route Calculation
SQL Server Version
None needed
SQL Svr 2000
SQL Svr 2005
SQL Svr 2008 R2
Developer API support
Ilayer2
ILayer3
IFVOverlay
Vista Support
64 bit compatible
Manual Install
ArcGIS Data Viewing
Req ArcEngine 9.x
Req ArcGIS 9.x
ArcGIS Editing & Geoprocessing
Threat Overlay
Bird Dog Threat Feed Support
1.2 2
2.1
Tactical Graphics / Mil Std 2525
Distributed Map Data Server
KML Support
WMS Support
LAN based Collaboration
DAFIF Version
Ed 8
Ed 7
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4. Open Standards in FalconView

5. GDAL features Geographic Data Abstraction Library
Open Source Library (DLL) for reading and writing a wide variety of common data formats
Raster Formats (GeoTIFF, NITF, JPEG…)
GDAL/OGR Vector Formats (Shape, GML, KML…)
FalconView incorporated GDAL into the FalconView Imagelib for enhanced GeoTIFF support in the NITF overlay
FalconView incorporated OGR into the GeoData Overlay

6. GDAL Capabilities
Tactical Imagery Overlay picked up capabilities for a number of new Raster Formats
BSB (Nautical Charts)
EDRAS Imagine files

7. Web Mapping Services
Open Geospatial Consortium Standard for serving raster map data
Client passes in geographic area and desired layers
Server returns raster (JPEG, PNG…)
Tile Map Server
Similar to WMS but world is divided into predefined rectangles
Client requests tiles of data
Server returns multiple image files

8. Available Layers from WMS
Weather WMS (Overlay)
Available Layers from WMS

9. Tiled WMS (cont) Multiple competing standards
TMS (Open Street Maps)
WMS-C (Proposed Standard never accepted)
Tile-server (older World Wind Standard)
WMTS (New OGC Standard)
All designed to lessen load server and allow client side caching.
4.2.1 Supports TMS, WMS-C and Tile Servers to create background maps

10. Open Street Maps www.osm.org
Open Source map data (collected from open data suppliers)
Available for users to download for basically any use
Available via TMS server
Configured by default in FalconView OS

11. Tiled Map Types

12. GeoData Overlay
Reads a variety of Vector Data into internal OGC Simple Features COM representation:
KML
SHAPE
FalconView Drawings
FalconView Local Points
FalconView DAFIF (5.0)
Geo RSS
GPX
GML

13. KML example (reatime Earthquake info)

14. GeoRSS RSS (Real Simple Syndication)
WWW standard for XML schema used to publish links to data
Typically data that is frequently updated such as News or Blogs
GeoRSS
Extension to RSS to include a geographical location along with the published data
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:gml=" xmlns:georss=" <channel> <title>Garmin Connect - chrisabailey</title> <description><![CDATA[Garmin Connect RSS Feed]]></description> <link> <copyright>Copyright Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries</copyright> <item> <title>West Stride 10M</title> <category>Running</category> <category>running</category> <category>Training</category> <category>training</category> <description> <pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug :36: </pubDate> <georss:point> </georss:point> </item>

15. RSS Feed

16. GPX Open Standard for GPS data
XML Format
Trail points
Waypoints
Route Lines …
Common format produced by and read by GPS devices

17. SLD Stylized Layer Descriptor
OGC Standard for “style sheets” for Geospatial data
Set of rules which describe how the application should draw Geospatial data
XML file contain one or more rules
Each rule contains
Filter
Stylizer

18. RSS Icons and Labels formatted based on SLD
SLD Example
RSS Icons and Labels formatted based on SLD