Vehicular tornado warnings

Author

Dasgupta, Anindita ; Callahan, Dale W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

590

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype of a system for providing improved tornado warnings. The system is capable of being embedded into an automobile to track the position of the vehicle and warn when the vehicle is in the direct path of a tornado, even providing an estimated time of impact. The prototype provides-exact location of the vehicle or facility using Global Positioning System (GPS) and retrieves the data transmitted by the National Weather Service (NWS). In the case of moving vehicles, special algorithms may be used to determine the speed and direction of the vehicle and then compared to the speed and direction of the possible tornado.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; atmospheric techniques; automobiles; storms; weather forecasting; GPS; Global Positioning System; NWS; National Weather Service; algorithms; automobile; estimated time of impact; moving vehicles; natural disasters; system prototype; vehicle direction; vehicle position tracking; vehicle speed; vehicular tornado warnings; Automobiles; Broadcast technology; Computerized monitoring; Decoding; Global Positioning System; Prototypes; Radio broadcasting; Receivers; Tornadoes; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. VTC Spring 2002. IEEE 55th

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7484-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2002.1002551

Filename

1002551