Title :
NEXRAD product improvement overview
Author :
Saffle, E. Robert ; Johnson, L. Dwayne
Author_Institution :
NWS/Office of Syst. Dev., Silver Spring, MD, USA
Abstract :
The National Weather Service, in cooperation with their Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) partners in the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Transportation (DOT), are currently planning and executing a scientific and technical evolution of the Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) system. This effort is the necessary and planned continuing improvement of the WSR-88D system to: (1) meet NOAA´s strategic goal of advancing short-term warnings and forecast services for the general public, (2) meet FAA requirements for additional and higher quality products, and (3) meet DoD requirements for a radar user interface interoperable between NEXRAD and other deployable Doppler weather radar systems
Keywords :
Doppler radar; economics; geophysical signal processing; government data processing; maintenance engineering; meteorological radar; military computing; open systems; search radar; Department of Defense; Department of Transportation; DoD; Doppler weather radar; NEXRAD product; National Weather Service; Next Generation Weather Radar; WSR-88D; Weather Surveillance Radar; cost; design limits; forecast services; off-the-shelf open systems; product generation algorithms; short-term warnings; Algorithm design and analysis; Degradation; FAA; Government; Meteorological radar; Open systems; Silver; Springs; Text analysis; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1997. NAECON 1997., Proceedings of the IEEE 1997 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3725-5
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1997.618092
