ATAK in three dimensions
The 3D Tiles ATAK Plugin streams photorealistic 3D cities from Cesium ion onto the ATAK map your team already runs. Tap 3D and the buildings, rooftops and streets of the area come in, sharpening as you zoom. Brief against the real buildings, not a flat image.
Streamed onto the map, sharper the closer you zoom
Add your Cesium ion token.
Enter your Cesium ion access token under Tool Preferences. It is entered on the device and never read from a build file.
Tap 3D on the map.
The 3D widget switches streaming on and off and drags anywhere on screen. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Cesium OSM Buildings stream straight onto the ATAK map.
Coarse first, sharper as you zoom.
A coarse view lands first and detail fills in as you zoom, inside a fixed GPU memory budget. On a heavy scene the plugin drops detail rather than overcommitting memory, so the map stays responsive.
Extended feature list
01 SOURCES Google Photorealistic and Cesium OSM Buildings
Streams Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Cesium OSM Buildings from Cesium ion straight onto the ATAK map, using your own Cesium ion access token.
02 TOKEN Your token, on the device
The access token is entered in Tool Preferences on the device. It is never read from a build file, so every team uses its own Cesium ion account.
03 RENDERER Its own 3D renderer
Tileset traversal, glb, b3dm and Draco decoding, and the OpenGL layer all belong to the plugin. ATAK's built-in 3D Tiles renderer is never used, so behaviour is the same across ATAK releases.
04 MEMORY A hard GPU memory budget
When a scene is too heavy the plugin drops detail rather than overcommitting memory. A dense city does not take the map down on a mid-range device.
05 STABILITY One bad tile costs one frame
Every draw, upload and release is fault-contained. A malformed tile is skipped for a frame and the map keeps running.
06 CONTROL One tap between 3D and 2D
The on-map 3D widget switches streaming on and off in a single tap and can be dragged anywhere on screen, out of the way of the rest of the map.
07 LICENSE Activate once per device
Activation needs a connection once, and the signed license is then verified on the device. It is bound to that device and can be transferred from the plugin pane.
See it before you are there.
Anywhere your team plans, rehearses or responds, the ground reads in three dimensions on the map it already uses.
PLANNING Brief against the real buildings.
Walk the objective in 3D before anyone steps off. Building heights, rooftops, courtyards and approaches read the way they will on the ground, on the same map the team will run the operation from.
REHEARSAL Walk the route before you drive it.
Rehearse the approach block by block. Zoom in and the streets, corners and entrances along the route sharpen, so the team knows what it is looking for before it gets there.
SECURITY See what overlooks the venue.
Look at the rooftops, parking structures and taller buildings around a venue or a route, and plan posts and coverage against the structures that are actually there.
RESPONSE Know the structure before you reach it.
Look at the campus, industrial site or city block a crew is heading into while it is still en route, on the same ATAK map the rest of the incident is running on.
READY TO FIELD IT
Stop briefing on a flat map.
License the plugin in under 2 minutes, add your Cesium ion token, and the city is on your map. Deploying to a team of 10+? Book a scoping call for a volume quote.
- ✓ Ships instant via email
- ✓ $50 lifetime · one per device
- ✓ Fleet pricing available
