Noise and Tracks Monitoring System

Another example of GIS application, which has been implemented by members of our team, is NTMS 2000 created for Holland Institute of Traffic Technology. This is a noise-monitoring system for airports. The system combines radar tracking of aircrafts flying around, arriving and departing to airports with the results of noise monitoring in airport area.

Functional Overview

The NTMS 2000 system has the following features:

• Advanced user interface based on MapInfo GIS ActiveX control and MS Access allows to review aircraft tracks in three dimensions and their correlation with noise events along trace on airport area map in dynamic
• Up to three tracks can be monitored in the separate windows that display all available information related to the aircrafts including their coordinates in dynamic
• Each noise monitor is displayed with column diagram representing current noise level in different colors according to predefined thresholds
• Extended configuration dialog allows to select aircrafts’ tracks filtering (direction, height, ownership, etc) method and style of their representation (colors, line type, label)
• NTMS 2000 works in real time mode as well as reproduce archive data
• NTMS 2000 provides various reports based on data collected in Oracle database
• NTMS 2000 receives radar data directly from radar via socket connection
• NTMS 2000 gets noise data portions from noise monitoring terminal devices by scheduled connections

Work Flow Diagram

Technologies Involved

• Oracle Database
• Microsoft Access 2000
• MapInfo GIS ActiveX Control MapX
• Astrix library for real time Radar communication

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