Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)

Four-Radar Testbed Installed to Forewarn of Hazardous Weather Events

The Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), which is based at the University of Massachusetts, installed a four-radar distributed collaborative adaptive sensing (DCAS) system testbed in the tornado-prone locations of Cyril, Lawton, Rush Springs, and Chickasha, Oklahoma. The testbed, the Center's first end-to-end system deployment, is part of CASA's vision of a lower-atmospheric observing system for detecting, predicting, warning, and responding to hazardous weather. It essentially integrates all of this ERC's research activities to date.

The testbed will gather storm data from multiple radars, perform an objective atmospheric analysis of the information in real-time, and dynamically retarget system resources in response to changing weather and multiple end-user preferences and needs.

CASA staff collaborated on the system's design, testing, and use with partners such as Raytheon, the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Chickasha city officials, and a local news station meteorologist.

To learn more about this topic:
Visit the CASA research testbed page at http://www.casa.umass.edu/research/testbeds.html

Return to the previous page.

Chickasha Emergency Manager Steve Chapman
speaks at the University of Science & Arts of
Oklahoma during a press conference unveiling a
CASA four-radar testbed that detects and warns of
oncoming hazardous weather.

Learn More

Help with Searching

Contact the ERC Achievements Showcase Webmaster.

Last modified: April 12, 2007