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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