Weather radar networking: computing versus communications

Abstract

The paper describes a flexible architecture for a radar network which permits the computation of products to be performed either at the radar site, local workstations or central computers. Two approaches to product transmission were discussed, ie regularly scheduled product transmission and ad hoc product requests. The advantage of ad hoc requests is that virtually all of the products that are requested will be used, while many regularly scheduled products may never be used. The concept of matched resolution sampling was introduced and used to make comparisons between the efficiency of transmitting raw data versus transmission of radar products. -from Author