The Moving-Map Composer: A GUI-Based Map Design System for Navy Aviators

Abstract

Navy aviators require current, accurate, and easily accessible digital chart data to drive aircraft moving-map displays and provide enhanced situation awareness in the cockpit. In support of this requirement, scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a software tool known as the Moving Map Composer (MMC) to help pilots and mission planners design and build mission-specific, digital, aeronautical chart coverages. MMC plays a major role as a human-computer interface by enabling pilots to effectively perform a wide variety of aeronautical chart planning functions, including the design and construction of chart image from user-specified data for use in mission planning systems and in-flight moving-map displays. This poster provides an overview of MMC and describes how its development and enhancements are driven by user needs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 2001
Accession Number
ADA393164

Entities

People

  • Jessica Watkins
  • Marlin Gendron
  • Maura Lohrenz
  • Stephanie Myrick

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Fusion
  • Department Of Defense
  • Display Systems
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Maps
  • Military Research
  • Programming Languages
  • Scanning
  • Situational Awareness
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design