Government Solutions: New FalconView Certificate Program

GTRI Launches FalconView Certificate Program and User Courses

The U.S. Department of Defense has relied on the GTRI-developed FalconView^TM software program since the 1990s to analyze and display geographical data crucial to mission planners. The program's ease of use, open architecture and interoperability all contribute to its popularity - there are more than 900 registered developers creating tools for use in FalconView and more than 45,000 users. These numbers will likely increase soon when portions of FalconView are released as open-source software.

To help developers master FalconView and improve the quality of new tools, GTRI created the FalconView Developer's Certificate Program in partnership with Georgia Tech's Distance Learning and Professional Education. The program includes six courses covering topics from developing basic overlays to tracking thousands of items in real-time to creating new background map types. Customized training is also available.

"Developers are shown the technical details of the FalconView programming interfaces and also the ‘whys' and ‘hows' of programming," said Daniel Longhurst, a GTRI senior research scientist and course instructor.

For users of the software, GTRI teaches three user courses: Introduction to FalconView-Basic Operations, FalconView Advanced Users, and FalconView Systems Administration. GTRI plans to make the user courses available online.

"It's definitely a benefit that the creators of the software are the ones helping developers and users learn how to better apply FalconView to their mission planning and situational analysis needs," said Chris Bailey, GTRI principal research engineer and FalconView project director.

Learn more about the FalconView Developers Certificate Program.