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US 8,525,724 B2Granted
System and method for generating derived products in a radar network
AssigneeUniversity of Massachusetts
InventorsEdin Insanic, Paul Siqueira
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Abstract
The present invention relates to systems and methods of measuring atmospheric conditions using networked radar systems. A processor receives sensed data from the radar nodes of the network to determine weather conditions within the atmospheric region measured by network. Preferred embodiments use a velocity processor to determine the velocity of the atmosphere in real time for display.
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A networked radar system for measuring velocity of atmospheric events comprising:
- a networked radar system having a plurality of radar nodes, each radar node sensing velocity data within a volume region during a scan interval;
- a velocity processor connected to the networked radar system, the velocity processor receiving velocity data from each of the radar nodes for each scan interval and that processes the velocity data to measure an event velocity within the volume region for the scan interval, the velocity processor being programmed to iteratively compute a velocity metric with the received velocity data;
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- a communication link that transmits at least one adjusted scan parameter in a subsequent scan interval to at least one of the plurality of radar nodes, the adjusted scan parameter being generated using the iteratively computed velocity metric.
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A method of measuring atmospheric wind velocity to control a networked radar system comprising:
- sensing velocity data at a plurality of radar nodes in a radar network, the radar nodes including a plurality of adjacent pairs of nodes that are spaced less than 60 km apart;
- transmitting the sensed velocity data using a communication network to a velocity processor;
- determining a velocity metric for a scanned region using the sensed velocity data from the plurality of radar nodes in a scan interval, the determining step including an iterative computational process performed with a data processor;
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- automatically generating at least one adjusted radar node scan parameter in a subsequent scan interval using the velocity metric.
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