Tue, Mar 30, 2010
System Will Improve Public Safety With Accurate Severe Storm
& Tornado Warnings
NOAA has awarded a $49 million contract to Honeywell to
upgrade the National Weather Services radar wind profiler network
that will predict severe storms earlier and provide the public with
more accurate warnings of upcoming storms.
“For nearly two decades, ground weather radar improvements
have been mostly incremental – yet weather patterns and
storms around the globe have become more severe,” said Vince
Trim, president, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc in a Monday
news release. “Honeywell is building a ground radar wind
profiler network that can predict severe storms earlier and more
reliably while better able to withstand hurricane force winds year
after year.”
Honeywell’s work on the production phase of the Next
Generation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Profiler Network contract includes upgrading the NOAA network of
wind profilers that provide upper air wind data for crucial weather
forecasting tasks.
The NOAA Profiler Network has been operating continuously
since 1992 and the equipment is now unsupportable.
Honeywell’s solution, which includes upgrades to the antenna,
RF hardware, signal processing, networking, and other system
components will provide the technology improvements to bring the
profiler network up to a supportable, maintainable, and reliable
level.
The existing 404 MHz profilers will be replaced with 449 MHz
systems. This will prevent the existing interference with search
and rescue satellite-aided tracking transponders. Honeywell began
building a prototype system in May 2009. Work on the three-year
production phase begins March 2010 in Longmont, CO.
Honeywell is partnered on the procurement with DeTect, the radar
manufacturer, and Wireless Edge, the system installer.
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