Radar Data Display
RDD is COMSOFT’s cost-efficient operational radar data display system. The latest engineering methods contribute to its open architecture and high scalability, which allow RDD’s adaptation to a wide range of operational and technical environments.

The powerful RDD system displays an extreme flexibility, both with respect to an easy technical integration into a large variety of customer environments, as well as to the large number of supported application scenarios.

Based on its broad scalability, ranging from stand-alone to networked solutions, the system can be ideally profiled as operational working position for tower, approach and en-route applications. RDD can also be supplied together with COMSOFT’s high quality mono- and multi-radar tracking package (RPX). This elevates RDD to a powerful all-in-one solution for airports and airfields.

RMD (Radar Monitoring Display) is the real-time technical monitoring version of the RDD product family. It comprises low level analysis functions, a raw plot display, as well as logging features and a multi-channel correlation display.

• Powerful operational controller working position
• Utmost connectivity with regard to radars, networks, other systems
• Cost-efficiency by use of COTS hardware and software
• User interface adaptable to customer requirements
• Mono- and multi-radar tracking extension package
• Dedicated system for technical monitoring available

• Target type selection
• Lower and upper height band filtering
• On-line source selection
• Flightplan and code-callsign correlation
• MADAP and ARTAS support
• Display of weather and meteo information
• Dynamic zooming and off-centering
• On-line selection of trail history, speed vector, label information and size
• All standard features for display of label information
• On-line selection of map information
• Multiple colored map layers (runways, approach lines, TMA, CTR, navaids, restricted zones, geographical information)
• Interactive color adjustment
• On-line channel selection
• QNH correction
• Compass rose, range rings, Halo (Zone of Protection)
• Support of direction finders
• Optional electronic flight strip support

Connectivity

• Support of a wide variety of interfaces, protocols and data formats
• Possibility of various input and/or output combinations between the above
• All types of LAN and serial line connections
• All standard protocols
• Full ASTERIX support, as well as support of many other data formats
• On request, adaptation to further customer interfaces, protocols and radar data formats
• Support of ISDN, PSDN, PSTN and Dial-Up lines
• Multi-Channel Processing
• Display of plot and track pictures
• Simultaneous processing and display of different data sources
• Independent online selection of radar data sources
• Support for immediate channel switch to a fall-back chain

Scalability

• Scalable from low-cost single PC-based solution
• to high-end workstation cluster solution, with independent client services for air situation pictures
• Portable solution available

Platform

• Industrial PC technology: main stream, continuously improved standard environment
• UNIX operating system: outstanding performance, connectivity and reliability
• X Windows/Motif: highly flexible and scalable graphical user interface; high performance engine available

Customization

• Flexible system design with regards to modification and extension of user requirements
• Maintenance and adaptation to new system environments can be performed by the customer (e.g. additional radar channels, new maps, modification of configurations)

Optional Tracking Package (RPX)

• Real-time software package for mono- and multi-radar tracking
• Available as integral part of RDD or as stand-alone solution
• High-precision local and system tracking for up to 16 radar sources
• 400 local tracks per radar and up to 1200 system tracks
• Kalman filters
• Optimized plot-track association
• Permanent use of all available radars (exceeds mosaic-based approach)
• Interface to flight plan data processing
• Highly adaptable to a variety of formats and protocols (support of all RDD formats)

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Stand Alone Solution

Remote Track Server Display

Cluster Solution

Based on RDD’s versatile architecture a large number of application scenarios and areas of use are possible. Below, some of the more common system configurations, ranging from stand-alone solutions to integrated RDP systems, are shown. These configurations can be tailored in a very flexible way to the customer's environment and requirements at the time of installation.

Stand-Alone Tracking & Display Solution
As input for a stand-alone solution RDD requires a single radar, which may be either local, or remotely linked, e.g. via a dial-up line. Optionally, FDP or direction finder information is included. RDD performs high quality tracking and provides a supreme display picture. This solution may be most suitable for small airports and airfields.

Remote Track Server Display
RDD can directly be connected to large track servers, like MADAP or ARTAS. Thus, it is very cost-efficient, as it can take advantage of the powerful RDP infrastructure available in Europe. At the same time, it allows an air situation picture based on a large radar coverage to be obtained. All standard ASTERIX track formats are supported.

Client-Server Rdp Cluster Solution
The RDD LAN solution provides the utmost degree of scalability in terms of the number of working positions and performance. Tracking is performed on a redundant central RPX track server running on a PC or workstation platform. Displays are connected via Ethernet or FDDI and may be tailored in a very flexible manner to their use in a tower, approach or for en-route control.

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