Title

Closed-loop architecture for distributed collaborative adaptive sensing of the atmosphere: meteorological command and control

Publication Date

2010

Journal or Book Title

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SENSOR NETWORKS

Abstract

Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) of the atmosphere is a new paradigm for detecting and predicting hazardous weather using a dense network of short-range, low-powered radars to sense the lowest few kilometres of the earth's atmosphere. DCAS systems are collaborative in that the beams from multiple radars are actively coordinated in a sense-and-respond manner to achieve greater sensitivity, precision and resolution than possible with a single radar. DCAS systems are adaptive in that the radars and their associated computing and communications infrastructure are dynamically reconfigured in response to changing weather conditions and end-user needs. This paper describes an end-to-end DCAS architecture and evaluates the performance of the system in an operational testbed with actual weather events and end-user considerations driving the system. Our results demonstrate how the architecture is capable of real-time data processing, optimisation of radar control and sensing of the atmosphere in a manner that maximises end-user utility.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSNET.2010.031846

Pages

4-18

Volume

7

Issue

1-2

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