ASD-100 Air Surveillance Display for Radar

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Command and Control (C2) Capabilities

ASD-100 provides an affordable way to upgrade existing Air Defence C2 Systems.

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Key Features

Air Situation Display software

Interfaces to Multiple ASTERIX Format Data Inputs

ASD-100 can interface to a number of different ASTERIX data inputs, including: radar video (CAT-240), plot/track reports (CAT-48), ADS-B (CAT-21), and safety alert messages (CAT-4).

Clear PPI Display with Maps and Charts

All data is presented on a large, clear PPI display, overlaid on top of user-selectable maps.

The field-proven scan converter provides smooth, flexible and accurate radar video display for up to four streams (e.g. raw/background, processed, MTI and secondary). Four track receiving channels allow primary, secondary and fused/combined tracks to be received and displayed simultaneously.

Aeronautical charts can be automatically downloaded on demand and cached locally. Chart data includes visual flight rules (VFR) and low/high altitude route charts, which are updated every 28 days.

Intuitive Controls with Touch Screen Support

The user interface has been designed to support modern touchscreen displays, using large accessible buttons and common view controls, such as pinch-to-zoom and slide-to-pan.

Intercept vectors can be calculated and displayed, rulers can be drawn between reference points and targets, and individual tracks can be designated through fast, easy-to-use controls.

Configurable soft buttons allow the user interface to be customised to provide shortcuts or add controls for external systems.

Safety Alerts and Track Filtering

Safety alerts such as Short Term Conflict Alerts (STCA), Area Proximity Warnings (APW) and Minimum Safe Altitude Warnings (MSAW) can be received in ASTERIX CAT-4 format (eg. from SPx SafetyNet Server). A visual warning is displayed as well as a graphical representation of the conflicts while they persist.

Track filtering allows specific targets to be displayed, based on their speed and altitude, or by user-defined areas. Tracks that are providing a cooperative transponder response can be hidden to display only unverified threats.

Flight Plan Support

Create, edit and save flight plans into an internal database and match against current aircraft tracks, using their callsign or Mode 3/A code. A matched flight plan is deemed to be active and the label of the corresponding track may reflect this.

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Integrates with SPx Software for Expanded Capabilities

SPx Server can provide ASD-100 with radar video and track reports. It also supports tracking from IFF video, including extraction of the encoded SSR (IFF) information.

SPx Fusion Server can provide ASD-100 with a fused stream of data from many radars and sensors.

SPx SafetyNet Server can provide ASD-100 with CAT-4 alerts.

TEWA (Threat Evaulation and Weapon Assignment) can expand the capabilities of ASD-100 into a capable air defence system.

Comprehensive upgrade for legacy air defence processing and display systems

By combining ASD-100 with other Cambridge Pixel solutions, Air Defence Systems can be upgraded predominantly using software, making them cost-effective and future-proof. Existing (and expensive) front-end radar hardware can be retained. Support for standard ASTERIX data provides compatibility with other systems using these formats.

Source code licencing is also available, allowing developers to extend, localise and ensure long term support.

Features

New Features Added

MapBox map support
Label de-confliction
Fullscreen PPI mode
Configurable and searchable Track Table
Password protected settings
Advanced filtering

Ready-to-run application for Windows
Four channels of ASTERIX CAT-240 radar video input
Four channels of ASTERIX CAT-48 plots/tracks input
ASTERIX CAT-21 ADS-B input
Safety alert input (ASTERIX CAT-4) and display of warnings
ASTERIX CAT-8 weather data display
High-quality scan-conversion:
- Low CPU usage
- Real-time and sweep fading (persistence)
- Programmable colour
Multiple map support:
- Tiled maps
- Terrain contour map
- Raster maps (up to 10 layered images)
- User map graphics
Aeronautical chart support:
- Downloaded on demand, cached locally
- Visual Flight Rules (VFR)
- Low and high altitude routes
- SkyVector charts updated every 28 days, and are automatically downloaded from the internet as tile images at different scales.
- Global chart support available, operators can choose between World-High, Low or VFR charts.
Flight plan support:
- Create, edit and save flight plans
- Callsign, Mode 3/A code, aircraft type, route and ETA information
- Flight plans matched against current tracks
History trails and target vectors ("leader lines")
Selective track filtering, based on speed and altitude
Configurable target label display
Configurable soft buttons for customised operator display
Full zoom and off-centre control
Multiple rulers with fixed end positions or tied to targets
Intercept calculation and graphical display
Overlay graphics:
- Range rings, with auto and manual modes
- Compass rose
- "Quick Lines"
- Range scale indicator
- Cursor lat/long and terrain elevation readout
Selectable metric or imperial distance units
Selectable coordinate format: degs, DMS, UTM, MGRS
Software Defined Radio support
Easy configuration Wizard
PPI snapshot function
System status display, showing current numbers of received plots/tracks.

Docs

ASD-100 Air Situation Display Datasheet

Cambridge Pixel Product Summary Brochure

Images

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ASD-100 Diagram

ASD-100 Soft Buttons

ASD-100 Track Filters

ASD-100 Flight Plans

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Real-World Application

Becker-aero selected ASD-100 as the monitoring display for a project making flying safer across a number of sites in Asia. ASD-100 was provided to receive fused reports (via SPx Fusion Server) from Becker-aero’s ADS-B receivers, and overlay them in graphical format onto dynamic aeronautical charts.