Recent News

• 24 April 2006
  Aviation Week & Space Technology awarded Nav3D a 2006 Laureate for pioneering work in Synthetic Vision. Dr. Andrew Barrows accepted the award on behalf of the Nav3D team. Click on the image below for the news release.
  
  
  
  
• 1 Feb 2006
  Nav3D has filed a patent application for our Real-Time Morphing Terrain Engine. Click here for the full description.
  
  
• 28 November 2005
  Nav3D is on the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology, the top weekly periodical in aviation. See the November 28 issue of AWS&T to read the article. Click on the image to see a larger version.
  
  
• 20 September 2005
  Nav3D provides Synthetic Vision for BAE Systems' Enhanced and Synthetic Vision flight tests on a NASA Langley Boeing 757. Click here for more information and early flight test results.
  
  To download the flight test video, click on the following links. The video is high resolution, 5 minutes and 30 Meg so please be patient while it downloads. Windows Media, Quicktime
  
  
• 7 June 2005
  Nav3D is proud to be a key member of the North Carolina and Upper Great Plains SATSLab Team. Congratulations to all for a successful SATS 2005 Flight Demonstration in Danville, VA. Click here for the Nav3D summary and be sure to visit the Small Aircraft Transportation System website for more images.

Satisfied Clients

Nav3D's client list includes NASA, BAE Systems, Boeing, RTI, Monterey Technologies Inc., Environmental Mapping Services, US Army Corps of Engineers, SRI, Ball Aerospace, and a number of other customers in the aerospace and defense industry. Our valued customers use Nav3D technology because it dramatically increases their capabilities and saves them time and money. The following is a sampling of successful projects we have completed.

Airborne Remote Sensing Guidance for Improved Precision and Reduced Costs

Nav3D developed a Highway-in-the-Sky pilot guidance system to allow precise flight tracks for airborne remote sensing and survey. This system was flown by Environmental Mapping Services in a Beechcraft King Air 200 carrying a hyperspectral imager used for detection of unexploded ordinance at the Lowry Bombing Range near Denver, Colorado. Approximately 59,000 acres were surveyed with this display, dramatically reducing training and flight time by replacing an older guidance system. The US Army Corps of Engineers customer commented that the flightlines were "the straightest they had ever seen."

Synthetic and Enhanced Vision for Military Vehicles

Nav3D's Synthetic Vision/HITS technology is currently used by a Fortune 100 aerospace customer for simulator, aircraft, and ground vehicle operations. The computer-generated image is driven by GPS, inertial, and headtracker sensors and provides Synthetic Vision imagery to an integrated enhanced vision system. This larger system includes multiple IR cameras fused into a panoramic view and is applicable to all vehicle types. Using a helmet-mounted display, pilots can "look" in any direction even though their normal vision is obscured by the vehicle structure.

Advanced Synthetic Vision and HITS for NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System

Nav3D is working with Research Triangle Institute in Hampton, VA on its NASA Small Aircraft Transportation Program research aircraft. Nav3D's Synthetic Vision and HITS Software Development Toolkits form the core of an extendable general aviation avionics suite, with interfaces to COTS products from Garmin and Garmin Aviation Technologies. Ongoing flight tests are demonstrating new technologies that can make light aircraft easier to fly, safer, and more useful.