FalconView uses a number of third party components during execution these include:
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Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE)
LizardTech MrSID decompression Library
Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK)
Kakadu JPEG 2000 decompression Library
Geographic Situation Display (GSD)
Solar Lunar Almanac Core (SLAC)
Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE)
MSDE is the "single user" version of SQLServer 2000. It uses it for the Map Data Manager and the NITF overlay. It is a Microsoft Product that has not license fee. It has all the strengths and weaknesses of SQLServer 2000. It simply has some governors built in to slow it down if you try to have more than about 10 concurrent users on it. When FalconView catalogs the Map and imagery data, it basically stores a record in the data base tieing the geographic extents of the file to the file name and path. During a draw, it queries the database to determine the files that need to be opened in order to draw the images needed to cover the screen.
In FalconView 4.1 there is functionality, called the Distributed MapDataServer, which allows a user with the proper permissions to query the database on another machine.
Microsoft Access
The DAFIF DB and most other overlays in FV and PFPS us Microsoft Access 2003 (in FV 4.x) and Microsoft Access 97 (in FV 3.x)
LizardTech MrSID decompression Library
FalconView 3.3.1 and later supports !MrSID(tm) map types. FalconView 4.x support these files as overlays via the NITF overlay. The LizardTech(tm) library has no runtime cost when used within FalconView. See http://www.lizardtech.com for more information.
Commercial / Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK)
C/JMTK is essentially a licensing contract between DISA and [ ESRI which allows !DoD Command, Control and Intelligence groups to incorporate ESRI's ArcEngine into applications. In FalconView 4.1 we introduced a GIS tool within FalconView which uses C/JMTK to allow users to view practically and format of data that ESRI's ArcView (more precisely ArcDesktop) supports. This includes data such as ShapeFiles, Personal GeoDatabases, ArcGSD servers, !ArcIMS servers and !OpenGIS Web Mapping Servers. Since the License is only for the limited C2I communities, we do not ship it with the standard PFPS install. If you are part of the Mission Planning community, you should be able to get the additional CD to install and enable this functionality from your MAJCOM representative.
Kakadu JPEG 2000 decompression Library
FalconView 4.1 uses the Kakadu image decompression library. There is no run-time cost for using this library. More information on Kakadu can be found at http://www.kakadusoftware.com.
Geographic Situation Display (GSD)
FalconView 3.2 added limited support for MilStd 2525B graphics. FalconView 3.3 expanded this capability vie the Tactical Graphics overlay. The 2525 symbology is drawn using a component knows as GSD developed by Northrop Grumman TASC for the Army Space Program Office (ASPO). More information can be found here http://gsd.ms.northropgrumman.com
Solar Lunar Almanac Core (SLAC)
The US Naval Observatory's Solar-Lunar Almanac Core is used within FalconView to calculat sun and moon positions and illumination values. This includes the Shadow Overlay, the Route Illumination overlay and the Darkness Planning tool.
-- Main.ChrisBailey - 23 Mar 2007
