Vaisala IRIS Focus Datasheet

IRIS Focus

Weather radar data: courtesy of Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd. Lightning data: courtesy of Transpower New Zealand Ltd.

Remote Sensing Application Software

Features

• Web-based application

• Easy-to-conﬁgure events and alerts

• On-demand data regeneration at high resolution

• Tested and audited with the latest security standards

IRIS Focus weather products

Weather products are graphical representations of the data captured by the remote sensing devices, such as weather radars, lightning networks, and lidars.

On-demand products are based on raw data from the IRIS back‑end systems (IRIS - Interactive Radar Information System and/or TLP - the Total Lightning Processor). IRIS Focus processes this data and generates on‑demand products in real time. On‑demand products provide control over the presentation of this data.

You can combine data from several remote sensing devices into composites to provide an expanded area of coverage.

IRIS Focus Remote Sensing Software provides a rich set of unique tools for viewing and analyzing your weather data from various sources: weather radars, lidars, and lightning networks. IRIS Focus helps you better understand storms for quicker decisions and more accurate precipitation classiﬁcation.

Integrated weather data visualization

Integrated data from various sources enables you to better understand storms and other weather phenomena for more accurate forecasts and earlier alerts.

Radar-based nowcasting

Nowcasting performs advection calculations on motion data from radar products to predict weather movement and severity up to 2 hours in the future.

Lightning Network Health

With the Network Health product, you can visualize the performance of the lightning sensor network.

Events and alerts

IRIS Focus can provide alerts for weather phenomena, such as the approach of a severe storm, turbulence, or ﬂood potential for user-deﬁned areas of interest. This feature is available for radar products.

Customizable map view

The map view can be customized by adding WMS layers from external sources, such as satellite images or radar data from external radar networks.

Technical data

Network requirements

Communication from IRIS Analysis and the TLP to IRIS Focus

Network data transfer >100 Mbit/s (1000 Mbit/s recommended)

Communication from IRIS Focus to IRIS Analysis and the TLP

Single user (1 seat) Network data transfer > 650 kbit/s

Latency ~150 ms

Multiple simultaneous users

5 seats > 3.5 Mbit/s

10 seats > 7 Mbit/s

20 seats > 14 Mbit/s

IRIS Focus in Remote Sensing Networks

Hardware requirements

Minimum

• Modern 4-core CPU (Intel Xeon E5 series or similar)

• 24 GB RAM

• 1 TB HDD

• 1400 x 1050 minimum screen resolution

1) The pre-installed IRIS Focus system delivery option uses the Dell PowerEdge R440 rack server unit, which meets the recommended hardware setup.

2) For a small installation with only a few users, 16 GB of RAM is sucient.

Recommended

• Modern 8-core CPU (Intel Xeon E5 series or similar)

• 32 GB RAM

• 2x 1 SAS TB HDD in RAID 1

conﬁguration

• 1920 x 1200 screen resolution

Software requirements

Browser IRIS Focus supports current Microsoft Edgeâ, Mozilla

Operating system CentOS 7

IRIS Analysis IRIS 8.13.6 or later.

TLP TLP 1.2.7 (CentOS 8)

Firefoxâ, and Google Chrome™ browsers.

IRIS Analysis provides radar products through a proprietary socket server connection.

Weather products

On-demand product Weather product

BASE

Echo Base

BEAM

Antenna Beam Pattern

CAPPI

Constant Altitude PPI

HMAX

Height of Maximum Intensity Product

LAYER

MAX

Maximum Data

MLHGT

Melting Level Height

MVF

Motion Vector Field

Network Health

Lightning network performance

PPI

Plan Position Indicator

RAIN1

Hourly Rain Accumulation

RAIN-N

N-Hour Rain Accumulation

RHI

Range Height Indicator

RTI

Range Time Indicator

SRI

Surface Rainfall Intensity

SHEAR

Wind Shear

SLINE

Shear Line (frontal boundary)

THICK

Echo Thickness

TimeSpan

Lighting event evolution

TOPS

Echo Tops Map

VAD

Velocity Azimuth Display

VIL

Vertically Integrated Liquid

VVP

Velocity Volume Processing

WARN

Warning/Centroid

WIND

Wind Speed and Direction

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