ITR/AP: Sensor Fusion and Networking of Radars over the Internet

通过这项信息技术研究奖，科罗拉多州立大学的电气工程师、计算机科学家和气象学家正在开发一种网络化的雷达环境，该环境将在分布式信息环境中连接多个传感器，并提供基于互联网的访问，以获得从不同雷达和其他气象传感器收集的融合多维数据。 这是一个跨学科的项目，涉及网络，雷达技术，数据融合和雷达气象学的研究。 任务包括研究来自具有广泛不同的空间和时间尺度和带宽的多个传感器的数据融合，以及使用元数据原则确保数据质量和数据传播的新方法。 该项目将以CSU-CHILL国家雷达设施为中心，这是一个偏振多普勒雷达，由科罗拉多州立大学通过与国家科学基金会的合作协议运营。 联网试验中使用的其他数据来自国家气象局丹佛和夏延办事处的NEXRAD雷达、位于CHILL雷达以北48公里处的CSU波尼雷达、卫星数据以及雨量计和其他仪器的地面网络。 其他几所大学将利用该项目所创造的网络环境，作为远程试验点参加。 该实验提供了独特的教育机会，在网络研究，雷达科学和技术，数据融合，神经模糊系统，云和降水物理学，和严重的风暴研究。

Through this Information Technology Research award, electrical engineers, computer scientists, and meteorologists at Colorado State University are developing a networked radar environment that will link multiple sensors in a distributed information environment and provide internet-based access to fused multi-dimensional data gathered from different radars and other meteorological sensors. It is an interdisciplinary project involving research in networking, radar technology, data fusion, and radar meteorology. Tasks include research on data fusion from multiple sensors with widely differing spatial and temporal scales and bandwidths, and novel methods of assuring data quality and data dissemination using principles of meta-data. The project will be centered on the CSU-CHILL national radar facility, a polarimetric Doppler radar operated by Colorado State University through a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. Other data to be employed in the networking experiments are from NEXRAD radars at the National Weather Service offices in Denver and Cheyenne, the CSU Pawnee radar, located 48 km north of the CHILL radar, from satellite data, and from a surface network of rain gauges and other instruments. Several other universities will participate as remote test sites by using the networked environment created by this project. The experiment provides unique educational opportunities in networking research, radar science and technology, data fusion, neuro fuzzy systems, cloud and precipitation physics, and severe storm research.