The AD4 project aims to build an innovative Virtual Air-Space representation for ATM systems, providing valuable benefits to support efficient control systems where 3D real time interaction with air traffic/airport space is accessible to the controllers. Shared views of information and inter-operability between ground and on-board systems can allow workers to cooperate, managing efficiently complex operations

AD4 will be based on extensive reuse of a technology called D3 (D-Cube), developed by NEXT in a successful National project co-funded by the Italian Space Agency ASI. Such open technology supports dynamic management and scalable data elaboration for DEM, Meteorology, Pressure and Wind fields,
Radar tracks and Telemetry data using auto-stereoscopic displays and 3D mouse devices. D3 will be improved by 4D constructs, supported by Model Driven Architectures and Secure middleware, data-fused with real ATM systems such as ESCAPE and ATRES.

Specific Human Factors principles, together with industrial engineering processes will drive the Consortium to design, build, integrate and validate complex and valuable HMIs for the "future flight" Air Traffic Controllers.

Project is co-funded by the European Commission DG-Research Aeronautics.

AD4 Consortium is coordinated by NEXT-Ingegneria dei Sistemi and partners of the project are ENAV, Vitrociset, SICTA, Middlesex University (IDC), Digital Video, Space Application Services, ESI European Software Institute, Fraunhofer Fokus and Object Security

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