Your plan, in 3D
A plan drawn on a 2D map opens in Cesium as it is. The restricted operations zone and the air corridor stand at their altitudes over the Alps.
See it work
Recorded in the Zaes demo
Each clip was recorded in the Tactical Graphics demo with only the Cesium 3D add-on loaded.
Edit an airspace volume in place
Change a ceiling in the properties dialog, or drag it with the altitude grip. Looking straight down, the footprint's own grips take over.
Labels that stay readable
Labels lie on the ground along their lines and flip as the camera turns, so they never read upside down.
Airspace deconfliction
Every pair of volumes that share ground and altitude, judged against the terrain under them, with aircraft shown at their real altitude.
What a range fan can see
The ground the sensor cannot see is shaded band by band. Raise the sensor and run it again.
A corridor from the side
The corridor's floor and ceiling against the ground beneath it, with the tightest clearance marked on the chart and on the map.
Measure in 3D
Ground distance, slant range and rise between two clicks, on the terrain or on the side of a volume.
Play the plan through time
Each graphic shows while its start and end date-time groups say it is in effect.
What it does
Capabilities
- All 318 graphics draped over the terrain, drawn and edited with the same gestures as the 2D engines.
- Airspace volumes between their floors and ceilings, in MSL or AGL. Drag a floor or ceiling to change its altitude.
- Airspace deconfliction against the real terrain, with each conflict shown as the shared block of sky.
- Line of sight for range fans, band by band, including the earth's curvature and a sensor height you set.
- Corridor side view: floor and ceiling against the highest ground across the corridor's width.
- Ground distance, slant range and rise between any two points, on the terrain or on a volume.
- Plan playback by date-time group, and KML and CZML export that carries the same time windows.
What it needs
Requirements
- CesiumJS 1.120 or later, alongside @zaes/tactical-graphics 4.3 or later.
- Terrain, imagery and Cesium ion services are provided by you or licensed separately. The add-on reads any Cesium terrain provider, and can read open elevation tiles from your own server on a closed network.
Delivery and licensing
The add-on is delivered as an npm package file that you install next to the open source @zaes/tactical-graphics library. It is commercial software, licensed separately from the MIT library. Evaluation licenses and integration support are available.
Evaluating the Cesium 3D add-on for a program?
Tell us about your environment, deployment constraints and operator workflow, and we will set up an evaluation.