Traffic Flow Management Modernization

The Traffic Flow Management Modernization (TFM-M) was meant to improve the coverage of current generation air traffic control gateways. The display technology we were using at the time worked well to display the airport surface and the roughly 25-35 targets that were on the surface at any given time but it didn't scale up well. I started prototyping different display technologies and eventually settled on pure OpenGL as it had the best performance of the technologies available at the time. I completely rewrote the display engine and we experienced a significant performance boost. Using OpenGL we were able to draw the entire United States with all of the state boundaries, air traffic sectors, weather radar data and more than 25,000 targets with their associated data blocks all at reasonable display rates.

Completely redesigned a Java based OpenGL display engine for a speed increase of 1000 times
Sensis attained a $5 million contract based on the speed and quality of the redesigned engine
Display has been adopted for use by other Sensis product teams