GlobalView
Military-grade situational awareness on a real-time 3D globe
The Challenge
What we were solving.
A defense organization required a unified situational awareness platform that could overlay multiple real-time intelligence feeds onto a single operational picture. Existing tools were siloed -- aviation tracking in one system, maritime in another, satellite imagery in a third.
The platform needed to ingest and correlate data from disparate sources: ADS-B aircraft transponders, AIS maritime vessel tracking, satellite imagery, and ground-based sensor networks. Data volumes were massive and latency-critical -- operators needed to see events as they happened, not minutes later.
Visualization had to work on a 3D globe with terrain, allowing operators to understand the geographic context of events. Standard 2D map views were insufficient for tracking aircraft altitude, satellite orbits, and terrain-masked positions.
What We Built
Technical architecture.
An 8-microservice architecture in Go, each service responsible for a specific intelligence domain: ADS-B ingestion, AIS maritime tracking, satellite pass prediction, sensor fusion, alerting, historical replay, user management, and the API gateway.
A CesiumJS-based 3D globe interface renders real-time positions of aircraft, vessels, and ground assets with full terrain awareness. Operators can rotate, zoom, and query any tracked entity for detailed metadata, historical track, and correlation with other intelligence sources.
Kafka-based event streaming handles the firehose of position updates from all sources, enabling real-time correlation and pattern detection. PostGIS spatial queries power geofencing alerts and proximity calculations.
Historical replay capability allows operators to rewind and replay any time window, overlaying all intelligence feeds to reconstruct past events with full fidelity.
Key Numbers
By the numbers.
Technology Stack
Built with.
Outcome
Business results.
Unified operational picture combining air, maritime, space, and ground intelligence on a single 3D globe. Operators no longer need to context-switch between multiple tools.
Real-time tracking with sub-second latency for ADS-B and AIS feeds. Satellite pass predictions accurate to within 2-second windows.
Geofencing and proximity alerts enable proactive monitoring of sensitive areas with automatic escalation when tracked entities enter or approach defined zones.
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