WxAzygy® Tools
by WxAnalyst
Radar Beam Occultation
Self-contained global DEM
Portable - works without internet
WxAnalyst has been working on a commercial capability to calculate weather radar occultation patterns
(Shipley et al., 2009) within a Virtual Globe environment such as Google Earth. The interactive nature
of Google Earth is used to identify locations for radar equipment, place that equipment at a user
defined location and then immediately acquire a depiction of occultation by terrain. WxAnalyst has
used this capability internationally with Innovative Hydrology to design a weather radar networks,
and with Baron Weather Services to define the optimal weather radar placement. A sample screen shot
of these tools for a radar siting activity in Morocco in shown below. The achievements in this area
have resulted in a set of utilities dubbed the WxAzygy® Tools. Customer needs for portable capability
and operations without internet have resulted in a transportable version of WxAzygy® Tools, which is
deployed on an external USB drive. A version of the WxAzygy® Tools for NASA World Wind is in development.
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