ASD-100 & ASD-View FAQs

ASD-View, ASD-100 and RadarView all receive ADS-B reports in ASTERIX CAT-21 over an Ethernet interface and display them on a Windows PC. Choose by what else you need to show alongside the ADS-B data.

• ASD-View displays ADS-B only, from ASTERIX CAT-21, Beast or AVR inputs.
• ASD-100 is an air situation display that adds primary radar video, track reports and ASTERIX CAT-4 safety alerts.
• RadarView receives, processes and scan converts multiple channels of radar video into PPI, A-Scan and B-Scan views, with ADS-B tracks displayed on top.

VSD (VSD-Camera Advanced and above) and SPx Viewer-3D also display ADS-B, alongside camera video and in 3D views respectively.

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ASD-View supports tiled maps, terrain contour maps and a world vector map, online or offline. ASD-100 supports tiled maps (including MapBox), terrain contour maps, raster maps of up to 10 layered images, user map graphics and aeronautical charts.

ASD-100's aeronautical charts are SkyVector charts covering visual flight rules (VFR) and low and high altitude routes; operators can choose World-High, Low or VFR charts. Charts are downloaded from the internet on demand as tile images, cached locally and updated every 28 days.

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Buy a SkyVector subscription directly from SkyVector, then enter the SkyVector licence key in ASD-100 through the setup dialogue or by editing the config file. Setup is described in the 'Tiled Map Display' section (3.24) of the ASD-100 user manual.

Contact SkyVector at https://skyvector.com. Once set up, charts are downloaded automatically from the internet as tile images at different scales, cached locally and updated every 28 days. You can choose World-High, Low or VFR charts.

You can request the user manual from the ASD-100 product page.

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Cambridge Pixel software accepts weather radar data in ASTERIX CAT-8 format. ASD-100, RadarView and the SPx Development Library can receive and display CAT-8 weather data.

To test a weather display without live data, SPx Radar Simulator can simulate ASTERIX CAT-8 weather reports.

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Yes. ASD-100 has configuration options to show or hide the menu bar and side panel, and a fullscreen PPI mode.

You can also add configurable soft buttons as shortcuts or controls for external systems, and password-protect the settings.

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ASD-100 accepts ASTERIX data over the network: four channels of CAT-240 radar video, four channels of CAT-48 plots or tracks, CAT-21 ADS-B, CAT-4 safety alerts and CAT-8 weather data.

The four radar video streams can carry, for example, raw, processed, MTI and secondary video. The four track channels let primary, secondary and fused tracks be displayed at the same time.

Typical sources are SPx Server for radar video and tracks (including tracks from IFF video), SPx Fusion Server for a fused picture from many sensors, and SPx SafetyNet Server for CAT-4 alerts.

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ASD-View displays ADS-B data only. ASD-100 adds primary and IFF radar video, primary and IFF tracks, safety alerts, weather data, flight plans and aeronautical charts, with tools for air defence applications. Both are ready-to-run Windows applications with touchscreen controls.

• ASD-View inputs: ASTERIX CAT-21, Beast and AVR ADS-B data, plus NMEA-0183 navigation data for moving platforms.
• ASD-100 inputs: ASTERIX CAT-240 radar video, CAT-48 plots and tracks, CAT-21 ADS-B, CAT-4 safety alerts and CAT-8 weather data.
• ASD-100 extras: flight plan matching, track filtering by speed, altitude or area, configurable soft buttons, raster and user maps, and SkyVector aeronautical charts.

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Yes. ASD-100 receives safety alerts in ASTERIX CAT-4 format, including Short Term Conflict Alerts (STCA), Area Proximity Warnings (APW) and Minimum Safe Altitude Warnings (MSAW). It shows a visual warning and a graphical representation of each conflict while it persists.

The CAT-4 alerts can come, for example, from SPx SafetyNet Server.

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Yes. ASD-100 provides an affordable way to upgrade existing air defence C2 systems. Combined with other Cambridge Pixel software, the upgrade is predominantly software-based, so existing front-end radar hardware can be retained, and standard ASTERIX data keeps compatibility with other systems.

A typical upgrade uses:

• SPx Server for radar video and tracks from primary and IFF radars
• SPx Fusion Server for a fused picture from many radars and sensors
• TEWA for threat evaluation and weapon assignment, with threats and intercept options shown in ASD-100

See air defence and military ATC for examples.

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Yes. Source code licensing is available for ASD-100, allowing developers to extend and localise the application and ensure long-term support. Alternatively, Cambridge Pixel's in-house team can customise ASD-100, for example with custom branding and user interfaces.

For example, Cambridge Pixel customised ASD-100 for becker-aero, including support for SkyVector charts. Configurable soft buttons also let you add shortcuts or controls for external systems without any development.

See frameworks and custom displays.

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