FalconView Open Source Inspired
FeaturesChris Bailey
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Understanding FalconView VersionsFalconView 4.1.1 – Currently Fielded
TalonView 4.1.1 – Fielded by NGA
FalconView 4.2.0 – Just completed Operational Test !
FalconView 4.2.1 – About to Enter FQT
FalconView Open Source 4.2.1 – Synched to Gov Version
FalconView 5.0 – Almost to “Beta” stage
Feature Matrix PFPS 3.3.1
SP5 PFPS 4.0.1 PFPS 4.1.1 TalonView 4.1.1
FalconView Comercial
4.1.1PFPS 4.2 FalconView Open
Source (4.2.1)
Basic Map Handling / Printing
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VVOD - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesPolar Charts - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YesGeoTIFF DEM (LIDAR) - - Yes Yes Yes Yes YesGeoPDF Support - - - Yes Yes Yes YesECRG Support - - - - - Yes YesGeoJPEG2000 - - - - - Yes YesStreaming JPIP - - - - - Yes YesBasic Aircraft Route Planning
Yes Yes Yes Yes - Yes -
Aircraft Route Calculation Yes Yes Yes - - Yes -
SQL Server Version None needed SQL Svr 2000 SQL Svr 2005 SQL Svr 2005 SQL Svr 2005 SQL Svr 2005 SQL Svr 2008 R2
Developer API support Ilayer2 ILayer3 ILayer3 ILayer3 ILayer3 ILayer3 IFVOverlayVista Support - - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
64 bit compatible - - Manual InstallManual InstallManual InstallManual Install Yes
ArcGIS Data Viewing- -
Req ArcEngine 9.x
Req ArcGIS 9.x
Req ArcGIS 9.x
Req ArcGIS 9.x Req ArcGIS 9.x
ArcGIS Editing & Geoprocessing
- - - - -Req ArcGIS
9.x Req ArcGIS 9.x
Threat Overlay Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes -Bird Dog Threat Feed Support
1.2 2 2.1 2.1 - 2.1 -
Tactical Graphics / Mil Std 2525
Yes Yes Yes Yes - Yes -
Distributed Map Data Server - - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
KML Support - - - - - - YesWMS Support - - - - - - YesLAN based Collaboration - - Yes Yes Yes Yes YesDAFIF Version Ed 8 Ed 7 Ed 8 Ed 8 Ed 8 Ed 8 -Favorite Tabs - - - - - Yes YesOriginal at: http://www.falconview.org/trac/FalconView/wiki/FeatureMatrix
Open Standards in FalconView
GDAL featuresGeographic 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 4.2.0 incorporated GDAL into the FalconView Imagelib for enhanced GeoTIFF support in the NITF overlay
FalconView 4.2.1 incorporated OGR into the GeoData Overlay
GDAL Capabilities Tactical Imagery Overlay picked up
capabilities for a number of new Raster FormatsBSB (Nautical Charts)EDRAS Imagine files
Web Mapping ServicesOpen Geospatial Consortium Standard
for serving raster map dataClient passes in geographic area and
desired layersServer returns raster (JPEG, PNG…)
Tile Map ServerSimilar to WMS but world is divided into
predefined rectanglesClient requests tiles of dataServer returns multiple image files
Weather WMS (Overlay) Available
Layers from WMS
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
Open Street Mapswww.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 4.2.1
Tiled Map Types
GeoData OverlayReads a variety of Vector Data into
internal OGC Simple Features COM representation:KMLSHAPEFalconView DrawingsFalconView Local PointsFalconView DAFIF (5.0)Geo RSSGPXGML
KML example (reatime Earthquake info)
GeoRSSRSS (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="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">
<channel> <title>Garmin Connect -
chrisabailey</title> <description><![CDATA[Garmin
Connect RSS Feed]]></description>
<link>http://connect.garmin.com/</link>
<copyright>Copyright 1996-2009 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 2010 07:36:24 -0400</pubDate>
<georss:point>33.8508558 -84.4296727</georss:point>
</item>
RSS Feed
GPXOpen Standard for
GPS dataXML FormatTrail pointsWaypoints Route Lines…
Common format produced by and read by GPS devices
SLDStylized 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
FilterStylizer
SLD Example
RSS Icons and Labels formatted based on
SLD