Aviation Solutions

An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in navigation of aircraft. Using these charts and other tools pilots are able to determine their position, safe altitude, best route to a destination, navigation aids along the way, alternative landing areas in case of an in-flight emergency, and other useful information such as radio frequencies and airspace boundaries. Specific charts are used for each phase of a flight and may vary from a map of a particular airport facility to an overview of the instrument routes covering an entire continent (e.g., global navigation charts), and many types in between.

NedGraphics is a software company specialist in computer automated design and geographical information systems. for governments and engineering bureaus. NedGraphics has developed smartGlobe, an aeronautical charting system. Customers include airlines and civil and military aviation authorities. EUROCONTROL selected smartGlobe as their high-end (AIP) charting product for there European aeronautical database project. The smartGlobe aeronautical charting system allows the generation and maintenance of charts and aeronautical data using a single source. The smartGlobe Web Data Manager is a web application for the retrieval, visualisation and maintenance of aeronautical (static) data. MapTrans is a map conversion utility.

Aeronautical Charting

smartGlobe

Read the article about Web Data Manager. This article was published in the Air Traffic Technology yearbook
NAV - CANADA In 2006 NAV CANADA selected the smartGlobe Aeronautical Charting System as its aeronautical charting solution. The decision was made after it assumed responsibility for the production and printing of Aeronautical Information Publications. To support this responsibility, NAV CANADA has made a major investment in an aeronautical database system that increases the focus on managing aeronautical data, while providing a digital production platform for documents and charts, and enabling flexible product delivery. An important reference for NAV CANADA was EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. EUROCONTROL selected smartGlobe in 1999 as their charting product for the Eurocontrol European Aeronautical Database project.
NATS - UK NATS provides air traffic control services to aircraft flying in UK airspace, and over the eastern part of the North Atlantic. This year NATS will handle more than 2.4 million flights carrying over 220 million passengers. In 2007 NATS selected the smartGlobe ACS for chart production.
NATA – Albania The National Air Traffic Agency is responsible for Air Traffic Services in Albania. NATA is a joint-stock company and provides Area Control Service for Tirana FIR as well as Approach and Aerodrome Control for Tirana Mother Teresa Airport. Albania is a member of EUROCONTROL since 1 April 2002 and started recently (2008) to work with smartGlobe. SMATSA - Serbia and Montenegro SMATSA is Serbia and Montenegro's ANS provider and was founded by the respective state governments to maintain, develop and operate ATM for Serbia and Montenegro. Now a EUROCONTROL member, SMATSA's tasks also include technical maintenance and development, training, meteorological services, flight inspection and calibration and AIS/Flight Procedure Design and started recently (2008) to work with smartGlobe.