Modernising Air Traffic Management with Open Standards
Snowflake Software is a SESAR Associate Partner for Information Management and a leading provider of solutions and expertise to enable interoperable data exchange of ATM data based on open standards. Our products and services enable organisations to Load, Manage, Publish, Visualise and Share AIM data models, such as AIXM and WXXM.
We have built our reputation in the ATM market playing a leading role in the FAA/EUROCONTROL sponsored Open Geospatial Consortium Open Web Services testbeds. A proving ground for re-using existing OGC standards with ATM, we have demonstrated that our products and expertise are capable of facilitating the interoperable data exchange of ATM data.
With Snowflake solutions you can:
- Load and manage AIXM and WXXM into your existing database
- Publish AIM data models from your existing database as web services
- Publish Digital NOTAM to Event Services for push notification NOTAM messages
- Visualise AIXM aeronautical information
- Share your data and validate for ADQ compliance
- Build an AIM Proof of Concept using our agile consultancy service
- Get trained in GML - the underlying standard from which AIXM and WXXM are derived.
Modernising Air Traffic Management via Open Standards
Our solution is unique in that we provide an open standards data services layer which is loosely coupled from your ATM applications. This ‘decoupled’ approach is aligned with the goals of SWIM and enables you to choose a best of breed architecture without vendor lock in. Importantly our solution can interoperate with your existing database or we can generate a new data model based on the latest exchange model standards such as AIXM. Use our products as a complete AIM solution or use them standalone to perform separate functions.
Load & Manage AIM Data Models
(e.g AIXM, WXXM, Digital NOTAM)
GO Loader is the digital ATM database tool for loading and managing the next generation of ATM exchange standards. GO Loader is capable of loading and managing any ATM exchange model, including AIXM, WXXM, FIXM and Digital NOTAM, into your AIM datastore.
You can use GO Loader to:
- Build a data centric AIM datastore
- Load all ATM exchange models into an existing AIM datastore
- Keep your AIM datastore up-to-date with the latest Digital NOTAMs
Our approach with GO Loader is a generic one, we’ve developed unique ‘schema aware‘ technology which adapts itself to any of your exchange models. New releases or bespoke extensions – our customers have found this particularly powerful when managing different versions of AIXM and AIXM extensions.
GO Loader for Aeronautical Information Management.
AIM Information Architecture
Publish, Visualise & Share AIM Data Models
(e.g AIXM, WXXM, Digital NOTAM)
To complete the net-centric data exchange goals of SWIM you need to be able to publish data from your database as well as load data into it. GO Publisher is a web services solution enabling you to publish all the ATM exchange models without writing software or changing existing infrastructure. You can use GO Publisher to deliver your data in all the ATM exchange models, including as AIXM5, AIXM5.1, Digital NOTAM, WXXM, FIXM and AMXM.You decide how best to publish your data:
- Use GO Publisher WFS to deliver data via standards based web services
- Utilise GO Publisher Agent to deliver large volumes of baseline data in batches of files for offline data load
- Publish to Consumer mapping applications (such as Google Earth, Bing Maps and Yahoo Maps) for 4D visualisation
Using unique ‘schema aware’ mapping technology (capable of publishing to new or existing ATM exchange models) you can build your next generation ATM services on existing infrastructure and maximise investment return.
GO Publisher for Aeronautical Information Management.
AIXM and ATM Exchange Standards Training
With the move towards ATM being underpinned by the standards based data exchange format GML (Geography Markup Language), you can make the most of our experience and get some hands-on practice at one of our GML training courses:
- GML Fundamentals - A one day introductory course in GML, with practical examples of AIXM5 and WXXM
- GML Hands-On - A two day workshop based course in the design, creation and extension of GML application schemas
As Europe’s only training provider in GML, we’ve delivered courses to numerous leading organisations including, EUROCONTROL, Dutch Kadaster, EU Joint Research Council, UK Ministry of Defence, Met Office and the UK Hydrographic Office.
Training for ATM exchange standards
Obstacle Data in Google Earth
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