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SKIRON 3D Doppler lidar system

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SKIRON3D® is a high-end, state-of-the-art Doppler lidar system ideally suited to measure winds and detect hazardous wind phenomena such as wind shear, gusts, turbulence, and microbursts. SKIRON3D® provides all capabilities to meet the requirements for these applications. Together with our METEOR 60DX weather radar and an LLWAS system, SKIRON3D® constitutes Leonardo’s solution for an all-weather, three-dimensional detection of hazards that pose serious threats to aviation.

SKIRON3D® employs a MOPA (Master-Oscillator-Power-Amplifier) configuration, and combines an all-fiber technique that enables excellent beam quality with high pulse energy for long-range measurements. The lidar is equipped with a comprehensive BITE (Built-In Test Equipment) system and offers full remote surveillance and control capability based on Leonardo’s Ravis® maintenance tool.

Leonardo’s proprietary wind lidar system offers a cost-effective and modular design featuring maximum use of COTS components and a high number of LRUs (Line-Replaceable Units) and sub-LRUs for low-cost spare parts. Special features such as a proprietary designed scanner without slip rings, air-knife no-contact optical window cleaning, and an integrated camera for lidar northing using the sun, moon, or a fixed target reflect the latest findings from research and technology.

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METEOR 700C/735C weather radars

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The METEOR 700C is a high-powered C-Band weather radar designed for the precise quantitative evaluation of precipitation and wind fields in the mean latitude regions. It is particularly well suited for the everyday needs and applications of national meteorological services seeking the best price/performance ratio in terms of coverage, broadband measurement applications, reliability and lifecycle costs.

The METEOR 700C baseline configuration includes a 250KW transmitter. Alternatively, the METEOR 735C boosts the peak power to more than 400KW. It is driven by a solid-state modulator with graceful degradation providing fault-tolerant operation and higher system availability.

The METEOR 700C systems are supplied with GDRX® and Rainbow®, ensuring optimum data quality for the accurate measurement of rain rates, precise detection of severe weather phenomena as well as tracking and nowcasting of such events at medium ranges.

Both the METEOR 700C and METEOR 735C are available with single or dual polarization (DP). The dual polarization option enhances the measurement of precipitation intensity and makes way for the categorization of different types of hydrometeor such as drizzle, rain, hail and snow. Thanks to its high-powered transmitter, the METEOR 735C operates in simultaneous DP mode with almost no loss of sensitivity compared to conventional 250KW single-polarized systems.

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Meteor 1700C weather radar

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The METEOR 1700C is a high-powered C-Band weather radar designed for precise weather detection and warning in clutter-polluted environments. The sophisticated system features a fully coherent 250kW klystron transmitter to deliver excellent data quality and maximum clutter suppression. This is particularly important for close-to-ground observations required by airport users.

Features:

• The METEOR 1700C is supplied with GDRX® and Rainbow® for the precise detection and tracking of thunderstorms, wind shear, gust fronts and other severe weather phenomena at medium ranges
• The METEOR 1700C is available with single or dual polarization (DP). The dual polarization option enhances the measurement of precipitation intensity and makes way for the categorization of different types of hydrometeors such as drizzle, rain, hail and snow. DP also enables the identification of non-meteorological targets like birds and insects, which can be hazardous to aircraft

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METEOR 700S weather radar

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The METEOR 700S is a high-powered S-Band weather radar system designed to be employed in severe weather regions, where attenuation by intervening heavy rainfall impedes the precise measurement of precipitation at long ranges. The system features an 850kW magnetron transmitter driven by a solid-state modulator with graceful degradation providing fault-tolerant operation and higher system availability.

The METEOR 700S is supplied with GDRX® and Rainbow® for the precise detection and tracking of thunderstorms, mesocale convective systems and other severe weather phenomena in tropical regions.

The METEOR 700S is available with single or dual polarization (DP). The dual polarization option further reduces the impact of rainfall attenuation, improves rain rate accuracy and makes way for the categorization of different types of hydrometeor such as drizzle, rain, hail and snow.

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METEOR 1700S weather radar

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The METEOR 1700S is a high-powered S-Band weather radar system. It was designed to be employed in severe weather regions, where attenuation by intervening heavy rainfall impedes the precise measurement of precipitation at long ranges.

The sophisticated system features a fully coherent 750kW klystron transmitter to deliver accurate data and maximum clutter suppression. The METEOR 1700S is supplied with GDRX® and Rainbow® for the precise detection and tracking of thunderstorms, wind shear and other severe weather phenomena in tropical regions.

The METEOR 1700S is available with single or dual polarization (DP). The dual polarization option further reduces the impact of rainfall attenuation and makes way for the categorization of different types of hydrometeor such as drizzle, rain, hail and snow.

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Meteor 60DX weather radar

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The METEOR 60DX is a highly sensitive X-Band weather radar system based on magnetron technology and featuring dual polarization as standard. Thanks to its compact design and unique radar-over-elevation configuration the METEOR 60DX is suitable for mobile applications and permanent installation. The innovative mobile version is mounted on a trailer, approved for road service worldwide.

Features

• Dual Polarization as standard: hydrometeor classification, enhanced measurement of precipitation intensity, real-time correction of rainfall attenuation
• Radar-over-elevation: no need for expensive rotary joints, reduced two-way losses
• X-Band offers maximum sensitivity at short to medium ranges at low cost
• Highly reliable and proven magnetron technology
• Features state-of-the-art signal processor GDRX® and Rainbow® application software
• Maximum use of COTS components for hardware flexibility

Applications include

• Weather surveillance and tracking
• Severe weather indication
  Hydrological forecasting (e.g. flood forecasting)
• Scientific research campaigns
• Wind shear detection at airports

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RAINBOW 5 application software

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Rainbow 5 is the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art sensor management system for multi-radar network management, data analysis and display available on the market today.

Based on our longstanding experience in meteorological software design and development, the Rainbow® 5 system fulfils all technological needs for a versatile system right across the fields of radar management, weather monitoring, nowcasting, hydrology, aviation and research. Advanced technologies such as platform independency, client-server architecture, cutting-edge meteorological data processing and standardized interfaces for import, export, and interaction with open source frameworks (e.g. BALTRAD, Py-ART, LROSE) guarantee a complete and unique performance for total customer satisfaction.

We are committed to providing our customers with fully integrated meteorological data processing systems for a multitude of applications such as: Severe weather monitoring, airport wind shear and shear related phenomena detection, hydro-meteorological flash flood monitoring and quantitative precipitation forecast, tracking and probabilistic short-term-forecasting, hydrometeor classification (rain, hail, etc.) and detection of non-meteorological targets (sand, volcanic ash, etc.).

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Scientific Data Analysis and Display (RainSNIP)

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RainSNIP, our tool for scientific radar data analysis and display, is a standalone software package that contains a set of applications to read, manipulate, and display radar data. RainSNIP is available for standard operating systems (Windows and Linux).

The use of weather radar in a network for quantitative precipitation estimation becomes essential for most of the national meteorological services. This requires well-calibrated and coherent radars even in heterogeneous weather radar networks. To meet these conditions and to facilitate the use and the analysis of the radar data by researchers and scientists, Leonardo developed an ensemble of practical functions in the software package RainSNIP.

Main functionalities

RainSNIP is equipped with a radar data interface, which supports reading polar raw data and key Rainbow® products. A graphical data viewer allows navigating through PPI slices of a volume as well as analysing and extracting data from the full data set to e.g. CSV files. With the RainSNIP radar inter-comparison application, data of neighbouring radars can easily be compared. The RainSNIP data conversion application is suited to import different standard radar data formats. Area selection, zoom, time navigation, data moment selection, data extraction, data query, and geographical coordinates are conveniently handled via mouse cursor.