Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)

CASA is a multi-sector partnership among academia, industry, and government dedicated to engineering revolutionary weather-sensing networks. These innovative networks will save lives and property by detecting the region of the lower atmosphere currently below conventional radar range - mapping storms, winds, rain, temperature, humidity, and the flow of airborne hazards.

CASA, the center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, is a prestigious National Science Foundation Engineering Center with over $40 million in federal, university, industry, and state funding. The Center brings together a multidisciplinary group of engineers, computer scientists, meteorologists, sociologists, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as industry and government partners to conduct fundamental research, develop enabling technology, and deploy prototype engineering systems based on a new paradigm: Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) networks.

CASA is a collaboration among four academic partners: the University of Massachusetts (lead institution), the University of Oklahoma, Colorado State University, and the University of Puerto Rico. Other collaborating academic institutions are the University of Delaware, the University of Virginia, McGill University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Industry and government partners include: Vaisala, Raytheon, NOAA, ITT, OneNet, EWR Weather Radar Systems, KWTV (news 9) and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) of Japan.