IALANET Viewer

Possibly, hopefully sometime in the near future, DMA will get some IT students interested in developing an Open Source data viewer - Project name is "IALANET Viewer"

Listed below are some of the desired features of such a viewer (inspired by the MSSIS TV32 capabilities):

• calculating the distance between any two points on the display.
• determining the meeting point, closest point of approach, estimated
• time of arrival, and cross track error of any contacts on the display.
• exporting data to OTH Gold, XML, or KML to be interpreted by another program. This can be done by streaming or by taking "snapshots" at fixed intervals.
• exporting contacts and their information (i.e. size, heading, etc.) to Google Earth via a KML file.
• monitoring the streams of data to determine statistics. This data includes latency, any outages, the number of unique contacts, and data flow rates from the source.
• recording and playing back logged data.
• sounding an alarm if a potential hazard could occur from a ship
• entering or leaving a zone specified by the user.