Air Traffic Surveillance Display Terminal

Introduction

Sky Display (Beta) is a desktop air traffic control surveillance display terminal.

Sky Display Main Window

Sky Display receives surveillance data in ASTERIX format, decode and display tracks in a standard air traffic control geographical display.

Sky Display supports XML based map file, user can create and load customized background map files.

Sky Display Satellite Map

Surveillance Sensor

Sky Display is capable to receive and process the following types of surveillance sensor inputs.

Surveillance Sensor Input Category
ADS-B Ground Stataion Target Report CAT021
MLAT and WAM Target Report CAT020
Primary Radar Track CAT001 or CAT048
Conventional Secondary Radar Track CAT001
Mode-S Secondary Radar Track or Plot CAT048
Surface Movement Radar Track CAT010
Automation System Track Track CAT062
Tower System Track Track CAT062
Safety Net Alerts Alert CAT004

Platform

Sky Display is a cross platform application, it has been tested on

  • Windows 10 64-bit
  • mapOS Catalina
  • Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 4
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit