Air Defence Software & Radar Interface Cards

From Airport Ground Movement to Countrywide Air Defence

Cambridge Pixel provides advanced solutions for radar and sensor-based systems, with a range of modular software, developer tools and radar interface hardware.

Speed up project delivery, reduce costs and improve performance using our solutions for Air Defence and Military ATC systems, including radar interfacing, target tracking, sensor fusion, displays and more.

Flexible & Cost-effective

Compatible with Open Standards protocols such as ASTERIX and NMEA-0183, numerous proprietary formats and the SAPIENT standard, our solutions can integrate with many devices and third-party systems.

This provides a cost-effect route to upgrade Air Defence systems, avoiding the requirement to replace expensive radars and sensors.

Reliable, Field-Proven Technology

Our advanced technology is trusted for military use, and we supply many of the largest companies in the defence industry.

As leaders in radar and sensor processing, our expert engineers are highly experienced with air defence projects and are able to help customers overcome complex challenges.

Core Capabilities for Air Defence

Build / upgrade air defence systems

ADS-100 is a flexible display solution to build an air defence system on, supporting a wide range of modern and legacy radars and sensors.
Our Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment (TEWA) technology can support large and national air defence systems.

Interface to analogue radars

The HPx-346 Network Converter (provides an Ethernet connection) or use our range of interface cards: HPx-410 PCIe card, HPx-450 XMC card or HPx-180 PCI/PCIe Synchro-Resolver Card.

Target tracking / track processing

SPx Server, an advanced radar plot extraction, target tracking and network distribution of radar video and tracks to remote clients.
SPx Tracker-3D provides tracking and 3D visualisation for 3D and Active Electronically Scanned Array (non-rotating) radars.
SPx Fusion Server fuses track messages from multiple radars and sensors (AIS, IFF, ADS-B) into a single stream.
SPx Track Manager convert track data formats / protocols, filter track messages by position and properties, and enable annotation of track messages.

Display radar / sensor data

ASD-View provides a clear view of target positions and associated information contained within ADS-B transmissions.
Get a clear view of the air situation with ADS-100 for radars and sensors, supporting maps, charts, flight plans and configurable safety alerts.

Build / enhance software

Add radar and sensor processing / display features using SPx Development Library. Features include radar scan conversion, clutter processing, plot extraction, recording and much more, using a library of C++ and .NET classes, with example applications, documentation and expert engineering support.

Test radar-based systems

SPx Radar Simulator is a solution to easily build complex scenarios and then generate realistic radar video, tracks, AIS and navigation data in real-time. This can be combined with the HPx-310 Radar Signal Output Card, a hardware solution to simulate radar output by generating analogue radar video, trigger and azimuth signals.

Record radar and sensor data

RDR Data Recorder provides multi-channel recording and replay of data from radar video and tracks, AIS, ADS-B, navigation data, camera video, screen video and audio.

C-UAS / counter-drone

C-UAS developers and integrators should view our C-UAS applications page.

Air Defence Modular Solutions

“As a result of the collaboration with Cambridge Pixel and the custom adaptions to the software, we at becker-aero, were able to provide our customers an excellent display tool with the ASD-100 application. Engineers at Cambridge Pixel were able to customise the software to the specific needs of our clients, e.g. support for SkyVector charts. Thus, we were able to offer our product to a wider range of interested parties.”

Dominik Helff, Managing Director

becker-aero

“Cambridge Pixel's software modules are seriously best-in-class! This flexibility of the software modules approach has helped us to introduce new technology to extend the life of the Selex ATCR-33 and ATCR-2T radar systems, whilst minimising the cost of the upgrade program. The support received from Cambridge Pixel during the development process was second to none.”

Warren Whitfield, Software Development Manager, Air Traffic Management division

Tellumat

“We selected Cambridge Pixel's radar tracker as it met all our requirements. It is clearly one of the best-in-class software-based radar data extractor and target trackers we have seen. It provides target track identification, heading and speed for targets within radar coverage and it is proven to work effectively in busy airports."

Mr Wang, Project Manager

CAACSRI