Weather
Sensors > Weather Channel Studies
Surveillance
Radar Weather Channel Studies
TSC’s
efforts with weather sensors have included the following tasks involving
Surveillance Radar Weather Channel Studies:
Weather Channel Products and Displays
Development
of a summary report describing an overview of the weather products
and weather screen displays for the ARSR-1, -2, -3, -4, FPS, ASR-8,
ASR-9, ASR-11, and the WSP on the ASR-9, that will include the following
information:
- A
brief description of the radar and a site location map
- Weather
products displayed
- Applied
thresholds of products before display
- Update
rate of the products
- Reflectivity
level of the display (dBZ, color or grayscale)
Weather
Channel Characteristics
Development
of a summary report describing an overview of the surveillance radar
weather channel characteristics including:
- Performance
characteristics
- Description
of scanning strategies
- Velocity
and reflectivity estimates
- Digital
Signal Processing architecture and algorithms
- Description
of Ground Clutter Filtering